They and other interested big unions are all competing - with ALU sorta trapped in the middle of all of it - to gain a union monopoly over Amazon because the labor bureaucrats know there's a metric shitton of money to be made off of inducting Amazon workers into their ranks.
I wouldn't say it's because of the money. The IBT has a real sense of class solidarity reflected in their role as enforcers of picket lines. Yes there's money to be made, but the desire to organize is primarily around preventing amazon from undercutting union wages.
In regards to the IBT, at least from my observations of the current leadership, I believe they are operating on the grounds of gaining a de facto monopoly on air-land deliveries/cargo to essentially build a union stronghold that will allow them to launch more bold ventures into other fields they've either been wanning in or don't necessarily have a presence in. Optimistically speaking of course.
They're not even to that point. They're in the basic organizing workers stage.
They and other interested big unions are all competing - with ALU sorta trapped in the middle of all of it - to gain a union monopoly over Amazon because the labor bureaucrats know there's a metric shitton of money to be made off of inducting Amazon workers into their ranks.
I wouldn't say it's because of the money. The IBT has a real sense of class solidarity reflected in their role as enforcers of picket lines. Yes there's money to be made, but the desire to organize is primarily around preventing amazon from undercutting union wages.
In regards to the IBT, at least from my observations of the current leadership, I believe they are operating on the grounds of gaining a de facto monopoly on air-land deliveries/cargo to essentially build a union stronghold that will allow them to launch more bold ventures into other fields they've either been wanning in or don't necessarily have a presence in. Optimistically speaking of course.
All memes aside, the ship that got stuck in the suez really opened my eyes to the power of even a short supply chain disruption.
If they really are trying to pursue that strategy they’ll have the capitalists by the balls.
They've organized parts of Amazon and are fighting to either have contracts recognized or get to the table.
The vast majority of workers still need to be organized, for sure, but IBT and other have seen victories.