They’ve also been sandbagging negotiations for the last 9 months, the union today is on a march, no strike action yet.
Corporations: We fully support the right for workers to unionize!
Workers: Oke we’re gonna unionize
Corporations: No no no we meant like when workers unionize at our competitors…
They don’t even like that much since it means they have to compete more for labor, raise their wages and benefits or risk losing talent or having them unionize.
I was buying from ebay because I didn’t want to support Amazon. Now what?
Boycotting can actually hurt the union, if market conditions suddenly worsen, it doesn’t matter if it’s because of boycotts or market conditions, it takes away some of their leverage. So I wouldn’t stress it too badly.
Organizing your own workplace and participating in solidarity events if you’re able are good things to do to help. eBay’s union has a Twitter, @tcgunioncwa I think it is, they sometimes post calls to action and such that are a good way to directly support the workers.
I just want to add, it is useful to boycott a company if the workers are on strike, but not so much otherwise.
In fact not boycotting during a strike is considered crossing the picket line.
