Ask HN: I work for AWS. How do I encourage change for Amazon warehouse workers?
Honestly, you have pretty little real leverage. Warehouse workers are going to have to form a union and threaten to really shut down amazon&#x27;s profits, in order to defeat these profit-motivated outrages. It&#x27;s always been like this. People have to self-emancipate.<p>To aid this you can help promote support for unionizing and other related things. But that&#x27;s fairly secondary. I think using your position as an employee to call out Amazon&#x27;s abuses can be a good way to direct media attention but without worker power, attention on its own doesn&#x27;t actually do anything. But Amazon firing its employees has given them a lot of bad press. If it happens to you it might be a good thing politically. That does suck though, if you can&#x27;t afford it be careful.<p>Related to all of these topics I want to plug <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.taxamazon.net&#x2F;about" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.taxamazon.net&#x2F;about</a>, which doesn&#x27;t solve the issue of warehouse conditions but does help address one other externality of Amazon&#x27;s relentless drive for profits at the expense of all other issues. Raising consciousness around their tax-dodging helps people realize their worker relations are terrible and vice versa, and passing this ballot initiative will do a lot of good on its own.<p>Edit: do get plugged in to Tech Workers’ Coalition if you aren’t. I just wanted to be sober about the challenges and opposition warehouse workers face and the necessary strategy for victory.