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Old 12-09-2015, 08:40 PM   #14
SteveEisenberg
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Originally Posted by tomsem View Post
US-based companies brag about laying people off. It supports the stock price.
I didn't know it was quite that bad. But the idea of a "redundancy package" for unionized book warehouse workers does sound a wee bit alien to American ears.

eReading has meant more jobs at Foxconn, semiconductor companies, and eInk, among others. It means fewer jobs in logging, paper-making, printing, retailing, and, yes, materials handling.

All in all, I wish executives would spend their time improving products instead of mergers and acquisitions. But I think that fewer warehouse jobs does have to be part of the eBook revolution, mergers or not.
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