knitmeapony:

whodearmedear:

theroguefeminist:

i did some research and got to the root of the misunderstanding about the strike dates

it looks like, originally, the spanish workers were going to strike from July 10th-12th due to the working conditions at the san fernando warehouse – which is a MAJOR location for amazon spain where millions of packages are handled. but after making some progress with negotiations with amazon they called off the strike and held more meetings ahead of prime day, keeping a possible strike on prime day on the table if amazon didn’t cooperate

AT THIS POINT THE PRIME DAY STRIKE IS ON, from July 16-18, according to their official twitter.

just to be clear; the misinformation about the dates wasn’t due to random claims pulled out of nowhere – at one point this was the ACTUAL time of the strike, it just changed in the course of negotiations

so again – don’t bite people’s heads off for wrong information during unfolding current events. those details were true at one time. then changed. it’s in the spanish news. probably not in american news bc amazon owns everything here and bc america tends to ignore shit happening in europe. i used google translate to read spanish articles on the topic there’s a lot out there if you use key terms like “amazon

huelga

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Just generally don’t buy from amazon anymore, whatever date, that’s never wrong.

It’s easy to say that but it’s really not that simple for many folks.

It’s like saying ‘don’t buy from Walmart’.  

If you’re flat-broke and need to eat, if you live in a remote place where you can’t get things shipped for reasonable prices, if you’re relying on others and need an easy way to tell folks what you need and how to get it to you, if you need everything delivered due to disabilities, if you don’t have the time to shop around because you work three jobs, if you locked yourself into the Amazon-sphere of products and don’t have the money to change that…. 

There are lots of reasons people shop at Amazon.  

It’s much easier for those people to run a temporary boycott for a few days than give it up completely.