Amazon says it will reduce its workforce as AI replaces human employees
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/business/amazon-ai-human-employees-jobs
Amazon says it will reduce its workforce as AI replaces human employees
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/business/amazon-ai-human-employees-jobs
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Picture shows a warehouse worker, but this probably isn’t the type of worker they are talking about.
When a few years ago I wrote that Amazon, instead of recognizing unionization or employee welfare concerns, will simply replace workers with robots, I was mocked as having naive faith in technology and disrespectful of people’s power.
Well, then.
Individual company-level unionization can no longer stop the destruction of workers’ rights. This isn’t the industrial age anymore, this is a backslide to neo-Feudalism. You never saw peasants organizing successful strike actions against their lords *for a reason.*
At this point, this collapse can *only* be stopped at the national government level through mass people’s action (e.g. “No Kings x 10” level of protests), seizing back control over the paralyzed Congress and captured Presidency, and enforcing *swift and major* labor regulation laws. Localized workplace actions are no longer structurally capable of delivering meaningful reform.