DL Open Thread Wednesday September 22nd 2021 – All Amazon
To “celebrate” Amazon’s tax subsidized boxwood opening, here is a roundup of Amazon headlines from around the world. FWIW – One of the chilling headlines below is the most chilling. I wonder if we will agree on which?
MILAN, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) has struck a deal with Italian trade unions promising to engage with them more in the running of operations in the country.
The framework agreement, seen by Reuters, comes shortly after news that a group of Canadian workers are seeking to unionize as Amazon continues to manage discontent among some workers at its warehouses. read more
The world’s largest online retailer has long discouraged staff from organising and staved off a high-profile attempt to form a union in the United States this year.
But globally, it continues to face challenges such as warehouse closures that unions in France pushed for during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ho-Hum: Trump Plotted Coup…:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/21/2053504/-The-plan-wasn-t-just-for-Mike-Pence-to-stall-on-January-6-it-was-to-hand-the-election-to-Trump
…despite the fact that he/his campaign KNEW there had been no voter fraud:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/09/21/trump-campaign-knew-dominion-fraud-claims-were-false-memo-reportedly-shows-but-giuliani-still-pushed-them/?sh=1e0217f8364a
The fact that this seems to have been accepted so blithely makes it clear to me that we don’t have the resolve to challenge a coup.
Or to make a preemptive strike against people planning civil war.
There was another buyer for the property back in ’16 and that buyer offered several million more but it instead went where it was packaged and resold.