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Originally Posted by Barcey
There's also nothing stopping the workers from spending that 4% of their working day thinking of creative ways to get compensated for the wasted time (equilibrium if you will).  More likely the good employees will find employment elsewhere and you'll be stuck with workers with no other options. Justice is better than escalations by either party. |
I get your point, and overall I think the whole affair is quite sad because it creates tension between the employer and the employees.
However, what you said about workers working less, or the better workers leaving, could happen now without the protest and everything.
I see no link at all in regard with justice, as "escalation" will happen, regardless of the outcome.
This can be spinned many different ways once you start invoking principles. For instance, you can "argue" that Amazon "punishes" honest workers for the misdeeds of some. But spin the other side and one could say Amazon would "reward" "honest" workers for their apathy (or for nothing), through giving workers the option to stay longer and be paid more per day overall, for the same work, or work a little less and leave same time than before. This would be a reward based, at best, on no achievement at all.
Personally, I think it's easier to, indeed, pay the worker by hour, including the time they spend in the security layout, because that's a simpler system overall. But as the average productivity falls (because time spent in the security layout isn't productive), adjust the rate accordingly. Which means that Amazon should have preemptively done what its workers demand, and should have adjusted rates.
It also means, imho, that bringing justice into this is shortsigthed, especially considering the lawyers fees (from both the workers and Amazon), and considering the brand damage that is being done.