My brother-in-law's house is blocked? ! Amazon's new crisis during peak season!

Amazon made a lot of money during the peak season, but small and medium-sized sellers who were deeply tied to Amazon generally suffered losses, and even wanted to rush to Amazon headquarters in Seattle to settle accounts with their brother-in-law. And this idea is not unique to us sellers. Another group of people not only planned this, but actually implemented it!

Amazon workers and union members surrounded brother-in-law Bezos' home in Manhattan, New York on Wednesday local time!

They claimed that Bezos made billions of dollars during the pandemic, but sacrificed the lives and health of millions of Amazon frontline employees. Amazon, as a beneficiary of the pandemic, did not take the necessary measures to protect its employees. Instead, it increased the workload during Black Friday and Cyber ​​Monday, exposing employees to a higher risk of infection.

They surrounded the brother-in-law's apartment on Fifth Avenue, which he had just bought in April this year, when the epidemic was raging in the United States. Because of the stay-at-home order, many people had to buy daily necessities from Amazon. These were the two months when Amazon's sales soared.

This apartment on the 20th floor of 212 Fifth Avenue, with an area of ​​about 10,000 square feet, cost my brother-in-law about $16 million. However, this number is still a drop in the bucket compared to my brother-in-law's assets (125 billion US dollars). I roughly converted it, which is equivalent to a person with tens of thousands of savings buying a can of Coke.

The union that organized the protest called on state lawmakers to pass the New York Health and Basic Rights Act, also known as the New York Human Rights Act. The legislation would require the Departments of Labor and Health to enforce minimum standards for workplace safety and enforce them with hefty fines. Regulations would include requirements for testing, personal protective equipment, social distancing, and sanitation.

Now is the time when delivery is at its busiest as the Black Friday and Cyber ​​Monday peak season is coming to an end. Even large logistics providers like UPS and FedEx are already close to being fully loaded. Such an incident at this time will definitely have a serious impact on Amazon's warehouse's ability to process orders.

This event also shows that the conflict between Amazon and its front-line employees is very intense, and has even reached the point where they have surrounded my brother-in-law's house. If Amazon doesn't handle the protests well, the protests may continue to expand, which will have serious consequences at a time when transportation capacity is most needed.

Amazon has hired 350,000 employees since July, or 2,800 a day, and is growing at an unprecedented scale, with the latest figures showing the company's global workforce is more than 50% higher than a year ago.

With large-scale personnel changes, Amazon played a decisive role in the employment market during the epidemic, inserting itself into the lives of Americans in a fundamental and unbreakable way. Although this has always been the company's strategy, the pandemic has accelerated its opportunities, which also made Amazon not care when facing the reasonable epidemic prevention requirements of workers. Anyway, if you don't do it, there will be others who will do it.

Under this pressure, an unprecedentedly powerful Amazon union alliance is taking shape! Foreign media reported that scattered union organizations across Amazon are holding a major vote that may form a union alliance involving tens of thousands of warehouse employees across the United States. The alliance will put pressure on Amazon for worker treatment during the epidemic, and I guess my brother-in-law can't ignore this kind of protest this time.

In the short term, such strikes and protests are definitely not good for our sellers. Failure to process orders in time will lead to more customer complaints, and the timeliness of warehousing and delivery will be affected. However, in the long term, Amazon's dominant position will be weakened, and its policies towards sellers will take more consideration of the problem of seller churn.