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>probably because the conditions are so cruel.
Ugh, thats the crap I am talking about in the last sentence of my original post.
There is nothing wrong with high turnover at a minimum wage manual labor job. Amazon hires seasonal workers that happily work overtime for $30 and then quit. Nobody is making a career out of being a warehouse associate.
The majority of people on Hacker News, yourself included (I can tell from your comments) have privilege that means we never had to consider something like making a career out of working in a warehouse. But this is absolutely a reality for alot of smart, hard working people, because they didn't have the opportunities you and me had.
If unionization didn't lead to better outcomes for workers, Bezos wouldn't care about it. If it was going to be so bad for workers, he would just let them do it and let them fail. The fact that Amazon is doing anything about it is proof that it will benefit workers.
Um.
I worked a warehouse one summer in college.
A whole lot of my coworkers were, in fact, making a career out of it.
It was a crappy career compared to the easy, high-income gig I was working towards in software development, but it was a career, nonetheless.
I currently work with someone who was career warehouse until he caught a lucky break and was able to move into white collar work.
(Interestingly, his last warehouse job before going white collar was with Amazon, after several others, and he said it was by far the best warehouse to work in.)