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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy warns remote workers: 'It's probably not going to work out for you' (nypost.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy warns remote workers: 'It's probably not going to work out for you'::Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told employees who defy his edict to return to the office three days a week that "it's probably not going to work out for you."

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The reason why the can get paid as much as they want is 100% based on you being able to jump ship form company to company without having to wait for a company to find common ground between you and them through a union.

How strange, were I live there are Unions but when I jump ship I get paid what I want, without waiting for the Union, what do you think a Union is for ?

The real power of a Union is to let workers to negotiate for a minimum wage level (for example, I cannot be employed for less than a certain wage because it would be illegal to do so) that are reasonable and some basic rights the workers have (for example, no at will employment, a minimum PTO days which are enforced and thing like this).

True, this has some consequences, mainly companies try to go for the legal minimum, but I would say that it is positive overall

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You, within my union, can get paid more than the minimum. There's nothing against it in the bylaws. Shockingly, very few people are able to individually negotiate higher wages than the minimum. I wonder why that might be?

[–] 3laws 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you get paid $450k with only 5 years of experience? Cuz that's industry standard rn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Obviously not, 450k here is out of market where I live but on the other hand I have not the living cost of the Silicon Valley (or the US in general). I suspect that at the end of the month I save much more than the average Silicon Valley worker even if he earn, let's say, 10 times what I earn.

But my point was that a Union does not stop you to ask what you want to be paid and if you are worth it you get it, nothing else.