Hollywood Hunter

Over the weekend, the media's heated discussion on the first day of Igrid's listing quickly passed. In the new week, the North American stock market opened. Igrid's stock price continued to rise for three consecutive days, and the market value once broke through 260 billion US dollars. The Nasdaq technology stock market also continues to advance.

Until October 12.

James Mann, a former employee of an Amazon logistics distribution center in Wisconsin, suddenly filed a lawsuit in the local court, accusing Igrid’s Amazon online store team of illegally preventing his employees from forming a union to maintain their legal rights and maliciously suppressing the union. Proponent.

37-year-old James Mann was hired as a sorter at the Amazon Wisconsin Distribution Center last year. In a public prosecution document, the middle-aged man claimed that he was met by actively calling on distribution center employees to form a union after he joined the office last year. Suppressed, he was expelled in June this year and has been unemployed so far.

James Mann asked Igret to make an official written apology on this matter, re-emphasize the guarantee of the workers’ legal rights and seek various compensations totaling USD 16 million.

In an interview with a local TV station, James Mann also pointed at the senior executives of Simon and Igret, accusing the Igret IPO of making a large number of people become billionaires and millionaires, employees of the Wisconsin distribution plant. But he can only get a $9 hourly salary for long, boring and strict repetitive work every day, which is much lower than the $23 hourly salary that the former employee who used to work in the GM factory had.

James Mann believes that this serious unfair situation is mainly due to the severe suppression of union organizations by the current companies, which makes the bottom workers unable to protect their rights and interests. Therefore, in the interview, they also called on the employees of the distribution center to unite again to form a union.

The response of the Igret Media PR team was very timely.

A public clarification was made as soon as possible, and the details of Mann’s dismissal were also announced on the Wisconsin local TV station. The reason for the expulsion of the middle-aged person has nothing to do with the union, but a serious violation of the work regulations and rough treatment of user packages As evidence, the public relations team also directly broadcasted on television the image of Mann dropping multiple packages in a row on the conveyor belt and even throwing punches on one of the packages.

The public relations team also did not disregard the distribution center union issues and salary issues that Mann mentioned, and directly took out the voting record of the Wisconsin distribution center's employees in February this year about whether to form a union. The distribution center has more than 1,500 employees and voted to form a union. The ratio is only 21%, and nearly 80% of employees are opposed to setting up a trade union.

In addition, the hourly salary of $9 in the distribution center is also 1.8 times the Wisconsin average minimum salary of $5. This does not count the welfare expenses such as medical insurance provided by Igerit for employees. The average hourly expenditure, including various benefits, has reached $13.

This salary level is already top in the local industry.

As for James Mann's recollection of the high-paying past of the General Motors plant, he directly ignored it.Many people on the rust belt miss the glory of the Great Lakes region as the center of the global automotive industry, and the superb treatment of the welfare of the family who worked alone. It seems that not many people are willing to reflect on this. How did all of this become an unprecedented one?

Is it that unions are greedy and indiscriminately demanding that auto companies can't survive?

Blue-collar workers in ordinary automobile factories receive higher salaries than university professors. Fairness is of course fair, and no one will ignore it if it is unreasonable.

however.

Without the skin, Mao will be attached?

Regarding Igret’s clarification, James Mann immediately counterattacked, saying that he was accidentally lost the day because of the insult of the distribution center supervisor. Then he also released a recording, which was roughly the voice of a boy arguing with Mann. The reason is that Mann went to the bathroom too many times during his work, which became a bargaining chip for middle-aged people. He denounced the distribution center as infringing on the basic personal rights of employees.

Igrid quickly responded again, refuting James Mann’s recording as a cut-out uprising, and, according to the person’s memory, Mann often left the post frequently to go to the bathroom during that time, only to go that morning Four times, some employees said that the other party was not trying to solve their physiological needs, but was hiding in the bathroom to smoke, apparently maliciously slacking off.

James Mann returned immediately.

Smoking and slacking is completely slandering, mainly because the middle-aged people happened to be sick during that time.

Mutual exchange.

This blundering lawsuit will certainly not be resolved in a short time.

Simon never felt that many things happened for no reason.

Just like this time.

After some investigation, it quickly came to a conclusion that the Wisconsin law firm that supported James Mann’s lawsuit against Igret had a partner who happened to be Democratic Senator Craig of the Democratic Party who was defeated in the mid-term elections last year. · An assistant husband of the Ames team.

Some small winding relationship.

The other party suddenly set off such a thing, most probably still in preparation for next year's election.1996 is not just the presidential election year, but also the biennial election year for members of Congress.

The local Democratic Party in Wisconsin is clearly hoping to regain the initiative lost in last year's mid-term elections.

The term of office of Senators in Congress is six years.

Robert Hotwell, who defeated Craig Ames last year, is still fairly stable. The other senator is not in the transition year. The Democratic Party can only make up for the biennial election of the House of Representatives. In addition, in 1992 In the general election, Clinton won 10 electoral votes in Wisconsin. This is not an indispensable number. Some things have been done, and there is probably a test to stabilize this vote.

You should know that the major trade unions in the rust belt have always been strong supporters of the Democratic Party.

As for the Clinton couple's ethics, it doesn't matter whether it's for the position of the White House.

Simon believes that this lawsuit is just an appetizer.

The current state of the Westeros system can no longer be described by Mu Xiu Yu Lin, it is a giant towering tree standing on a flat prairie.

Sure enough, after Robert Mann sued, over the past weekend, on October 16, a total of more than 200 truck drivers under the three contractors responsible for the transportation mission of the Wisconsin distribution center suddenly announced a strike, which directly led to the paralysis of the business of the distribution center. .

The usual strike is usually carried out after the negotiation between the employee and the employer breaks down.

This time it was unexpected.

Complete surprise attack.

The news soon broke out. It turned out that one of the contractors’ truck drivers was dissatisfied with the company’s compensation for the traffic accident that had been entangled for more than a month. Therefore, the American Truck Drivers Union made a direct decision and sent a complaint to Iger in the form of a strike. Reiter put forward conditions to require Igerit to abandon the contractor model and set up a dedicated transportation department to directly hire a team of truck drivers.

If the negative lawsuit last week was just an appetizer that inhibited Igrid’s stock price rise, the sudden strike of the truck driver caused a paralysis of a large logistics distribution center under Amazon, which is a very serious direct impact.

The stakes involved in this matter are also quite complicated.

Let's talk about the operation mode of the Amazon logistics distribution system.

The current Amazon online store logistics distribution system is only a preliminary stage of e-commerce development. Amazon builds logistics distribution centers across the United States, just completing the first stage of delivery from the Amazon warehouse to the contracted express company.

Because traditional US express delivery is expensive and slow, the official undertakes the first stage of delivery, which can improve efficiency and shorten the delivery schedule, and greatly reduce costs. After express mail companies such as USPS obtain mail, they will use their own perfect delivery network to The goods are delivered to specific customers.

At the current stage of Amazon's primary distribution system, in order to avoid the entanglement of the large American truck driver union, it chose the outsourcing model instead of setting up its own transportation team.

This is a plan that Simon personally designed according to the Amazon operating model in his memory.

The employees of the logistics distribution center are new types of work, so there is no established trade union to rely on.

The American Truck Drivers Union is an old trade union organization that has existed for many years like the American Auto Workers Association. The union members have reached 1.4 million, which is larger than the fast-declining Auto Workers Union.

The e-commerce business is destined to do without trucking, which is responsible for more than 70% of the US domestic capacity.

So it can only be circuitous.

Adding a layer of contractors will inevitably increase costs to a certain extent. However, through many small independent transportation companies as a buffer to avoid direct contact with the truck driver union, Igreut can definitely save more.

Otherwise, if a transportation department is set up separately to hire truck drivers directly, with the continued growth of Egrete’s e-commerce business, hundreds of thousands of truck drivers attached to the Amazon Fulfillment Distribution Network in the future, backed by the union, will definitely become Iraq. Grete’s nightmare has no less negative impact than the Auto Workers’ Federation, which is still attached to the American auto giant.

Major auto giants in the United States can also breathe a sigh of relief by relocating their factories overseas, and it is clear that Eaglet’s e-commerce business is not feasible.By that time, if the union continued to demand high salaries and high benefits and it was completely inefficient, the Amazon online store under Igret would not need to exist.

There is no shortage of smart people in this world.

Igrid’s outsourcing strategy is not obscure. The truckers’ union found it difficult for its members to take advantage of a large group of small transportation companies. Igrid, who just completed the IPO, is a fat oil. , Will naturally produce the thoughts of eating big households.

This sudden attack is obviously a temptation.

If Igrid makes a compromise in Wisconsin, the next thing is very easy to handle.As long as a large number of truck drivers change from contractor employees to full-time employees of Igret, this company has not been left to the truck drivers union.

Both sides understood each other's intentions. The Truck Drivers Union attacked suddenly, and Igrid was also simple. Several responsible persons knew what would happen if the Truck Drivers Union succeeded, so they decisively suspended the operation of the Wisconsin distribution center.

Then it was still a fight.

The Truck Drivers Union suddenly chose to strike without any communication, and this time Igerett was actually the one to dominate.However, the Truck Drivers Union wanted to communicate directly with Igret, but it would not let it succeed. It publicly accused the Truck Drivers Union of reckless strikes and lack of faith to gain the commanding heights of public opinion. After quietly communicating in private, another Recruitment, the statement will pursue the losses caused by three contractors to Igrid.

Not accepting the American Truck Drivers Union’s request for Igrid’s establishment of a direct transportation department, but urging the Truck Drivers Union and the contractor to resolve their differences as soon as possible.

The Wisconsin Distribution Center is mainly responsible for distribution services in five states with headquarters.

While suspending the Wisconsin distribution center, the Amazon team also used other channels to make up for the market vacancy caused by the shutdown of the distribution center to the greatest extent. It also conducted public opinion in the Wisconsin state, saying that once the Wisconsin distribution center was closed for more than two weeks, the business was After other distribution centers take over, Eaglet will lay off employees at the Wisconsin distribution center.

Those truck drivers who strike suddenly will be blacklisted by Igret.

Located in the rust belt, Wisconsin is the state with the highest unemployment rate in recent years. The recent unemployment rate has dropped from 8.6% two years ago to 6.1%, still exceeding the current federal unemployment rate of 5.6%.

Therefore, Amazon’s logistics distribution center employees have very low thresholds. In fact, jobs with a low salary level are actually very rare. Otherwise, if the union vote at the beginning of the year, even if there is an official lobbying factor, the distribution center employees will not be only 21%. Of people voted in favour.

With an hourly salary of $9, this is also the number that Simon personally finalized.The female housekeeper’s original plan gave a basic hourly rate of only $7.

Not only for a group of executives, the entire Westero system, out of the idea of ​​creating a'Westerosian', Simon has been deliberately giving a relatively high treatment, because he has always believed that this can be mobilized to a large extent Employee motivation and loyalty and belonging.

Not only the salary, the school where the children of the Wisconsin distribution center are located has also been particularly under the care of the Westeros Family Foundation for more than a year. In the future, all descendants of'Westerosian' will have the opportunity to receive more benefits.

However, the relatively high level is by no means outrageous, and Simon will not accept the restraint and coercion of the union.

If Simon is not willing to give it, no one wants to grab it.

The impact of the Truck Drivers Union on Igrid’s e-commerce business is very intuitive.

On the day of October 16, Igret's stock price fell by 2.1%, and in the following days it fell by more than 3% in volatility. The strike continued until October 20. In five days, Igret's stock price fell as a whole. 6.2%, closed on Friday afternoon, the market value has dropped from 253.7 billion US dollars on Monday to 237.9 billion US dollars.