Workers at Amazon's Main Italian Site To Hold First Strike on Black Friday (reuters.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Workers at Amazon's main distribution hub in Italy are planning their first ever strike for Friday, trade unions said, threatening to disrupt one of the busiest shopping days of the year. Like the rest of Europe, Italians in recent years have embraced the U.S. tradition of Black Friday, a day of heavy discounting by retailers on the day after Thanksgiving. Unions said in a statement more than 500 Amazon workers at the Piacenza site in northern Italy had agreed to strike following a failure to negotiate bonuses with the company. Workers have also decided not to do any overtime until Dec. 31, covering the peak season for the online retailer which hires temporary workers during this period.

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Re:Fine employees

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The best protection for the workers is to have many (a half dozen or more) job options available to them.

I don't disagree, but the problem is, that's not the situation. It's not the situation in Italy, it's not the situation anywhere in the EU in fact, and it's not the situation in the USA either. It's not the situation anywhere in the world, as far as I can tell. And this is because the worker's share of the profit has declined, and when owners spend money they tend to give it to other owners, but when workers spend money they tend to spend more of it in ways that put the highest percentage into another worker's pocket (i.e. locally.)