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I don't think Amazon wants to shut this warehouse down, my rough understanding is that it's a hugely important warehouse, serving NYC's millions of customers.

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So? Why can't it be in Long Island, New Jersey, Newark, or any other place around NYC?

It's a sad state of affairs when corporations are allowed to screw citizens over.

I’m a 46yro male from the US. When have corporations NOT been allowed to screwed over citizens? I think thats been true for the entirety of my life.

And here in Sweden I come from decades of strong unions, strong government oversight. So much so that people are looking to the other side, voting for privatization without understanding the consequences. Voting for parties that promote less government oversight and more control to corporations.

Government regulation isn't there to stifle development, it's there to PROTECT. THE. CITIZENS.

The consequences are dire. In the US, We the People only now exist to line the pockets of the uppermost classes, whose disdain for the rest of us is, well its really getting tiring at this point.

Staten Island is in a pretty central location. You can go straight to brooklyn / queens / long island without having to go through the city like you would from NJ.

There are two bridges connecting Staten Island to New Jersey. One is part of I-278 which then continues onto Long Island via the Verrazano Narrows bridge.

With that said, I haven’t looked at the toll situation for either of the NJ bridges in years, so maybe tolls alone would be enough to remove any alleged savings from non-union labor.

I'd imagine the tolls for bridges and tunnels are prohibitively expensive for last-mile shipping going from Jersey to NYC. Tolls are absent from NYC to Jersey in some cases, though.

That area also has some of the longest commutes and traffic in the country. In my mind, it doesn't make much sense for time sensitive deliveries or efficiency.

> Why can't it be in Long Island, New Jersey, Newark, or any other place around NYC?

Because they already have fulfillment centers in all of those places, and during the holiday season (peak) they are maxed out.

I know people and it’s already in shut down mode. Do you really think they designed their infra to be that vulnerable?

It’s time to make a point and turn the community against the agitators. They destroyed good jobs.

> make a point and turn the community against the agitators.

Time and time again this is the proven strategy.

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