Comment by zb1plus

Former AWS here.

I mentioned unionization on my personal social media account and was approached by legal that I should “consider my public statements about my job carefully.”

It is well known that Amazon hires organizations like the Pinkertons to break up unionization efforts at all levels, even going as far as to bait union supporters into signing fake union interest forms on false pretense and then attrition-fire individuals who signed by giving them no hours, pushing them into ineffective or frustrating conditions, PIPs, etc.

The actual answer to your question, besides the fact that all of us SDEs consider ourselves exceptional at our jobs, is that there are a lot of people whose immigration status depends on their job. They can’t strike.

For that and other reasons, Amazon knows they can do what they want.

I would love for labor to get a win, but it’s easy for me to say since I don’t work at Amazon. Someone else should bell the cat.

I just joined Amazon but I’m definitely on board for unionization. Just need to figure out who else is. It seems like the real solution here is a collective unit to bargain with management to say no 5 days is not necessary. And probably get some other benefits too. But given amazons anti-union tactics in the warehouses I can’t imagine they’d be friendly to a corporate union either

>Idk why Amazon employees aren't unionizing over this

Because the people most likely to unionize are exactly the people Amazon dosn't care that much about. If you are a star performer, you are paid gobs of money and treated like royalty. If you're even a decent employee, you make tons of money and are given lots of leeaway.

It's the rest who are the loudest complainers.

Because the vast majority of Amazon employees love the paychecks. In the end, private company = private rules.

Also, Amazon is never going to count hours, so people are going to do the same thing they are doing now - come in for a few hours and peace out.