If You Push People -- Good People -- Too Hard, And For Decades, On End... Eventually, A Business Owner Reaps The Whirlwind. Today Is That Day, At Mr. Bezos' Joint.

Yes, we are heading into the busiest shipping week of the year. Yes, other nutty oligarchs are designing plans to shut -- and gut -- federal government "safety net" programs. So. . . from my perspective, this nationwide strike comes at exactly the right moment.

Amazon delivery drivers should be allowed simple stress free lunch breaks. Their scheduling runs should build it in. They should be allowed bathroom breaks -- and not have to eat while driving, and dangerously, and disgustingly. . . pee into bottles, same -- on a 12 to 14 hour shift (often for which the company doesn't even offer overtime pay). These are not living wages at below $12 an hour, in many locations.

I suppose the only surprise here. . . is that Mr. Bezos and his flunky "yes men" took this long to realize. . . that at some point, the bending ends -- and the breaking. . . comes, rather all at once. Nationwide, seven distribution centers have walked out, and joined picket lines, this morning. Here's the New York Times on it:

. . .Workers who deliver packages from seven Amazon facilities across the country went on strike Thursday morning, according to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the union that represents them.

The Teamsters said thousands of workers had struck, but it was unclear how many people were participating in the action. Amazon said it expected the seven delivery hubs to operate normally.

The drivers are employees of companies that Amazon uses to deliver packages to customers. Amazon has said it has no obligation to bargain with the drivers, because they are not its employees. But the union and the workers said that Amazon ultimately controls their working conditions and was therefore obligated to bargain with them. . . .

Several NRLB Hearing Panels have agreed with the union, that these delivery drivers are controlled by Mother Amazon, via contracts -- and as such, must be bargained with, directly. But that matter is on appeal at the moment.

In any event, the idea that these sputtering, ignorant-of-history MAGA bros are going to actually run things. . . is already falling apart. It is. . . hilarious.

Exhibit A? Watch as Mr. Musk flames out, in early January -- when his lobby disclosure act forms are due in DC -- else, the Federal Marshals will show up and walk him out of the Capitol (for failure to register as a lobbyist).

Hilarious.

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