Right on time for Amazon's union vote!! I support people's right to organize, but warehouse workers are in for a rude awakening. Amazon's warehouse "partners" are just like Uber's drivers: intended as stopgap labor before AI can stock shelves/pick items/drive cars; except that stocking a warehouse/picking items is orders of magnitude easier to accomplish than autonomous driving. I look to Amazon to start shedding jobs by the tens of thousand in the near future.
The more automation happens, the more desperately cheap labor there is to disincentive further automation. Organizing to raise workplace standards is in fact necessary to ensure the shit jobs are entirely eliminated.
