K. Locke

"Customers need to know that just 'cause you hit one-click buy, it's not magic. These are real people being affected. We want you all to stand in solidarity with these workers. They come from y'all community, they're your neighbors.

The first thing we're fighting for is job security. They hire and fire people all the time. There's people that are homeless and people in shelters working there that we help.

We're fighting to make everybody a shareholder again, which they stopped in 2018, and bringing back the monthly bonuses for productivity and attendance. They stopped that in 2018, as well. Bring back hazard pay.

They think the pandemic is over. People are still working, catching covid, still being sick. And, also, providing a better quality of life: a pension, free college...everything a union can provide, we want to provide."

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.