Couldn’t find one.
Yes, I searched.
Is it much ado about nothing, or should some of us (not me) be concerned (about the strike, not the fact that I can’t find a thread)?
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I’m mildly surprised that there don’t appear to be any comments about this over in the Screeching Harpy’s Abomination NSFE…
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I didn’t even realize Amazon employees were having a strike.
I knew about the Canada Post strike.
We can no longer ship to Canada using USPS until the strike ends.
More info can be found here in the USPS site, About Canada Post strike [link]
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I cannot find any news updates which provide any information on where the Amazon employees have actually gone on strike.
All I can find is the quotes from the Make Amazon Pay Press Release.
Apparently, there has been a Black Friday - Cyber Monday strike at Amazon since 2020.
Has anyone here ever seen an effect?
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We ourselves have never been able to detect any significant impact on our FBA operations from this now-annual event - nor, for that matter, from any of the other Amazon employee-instigated strikes that have happened over the years.
It seems to me that there’s a fairly-broad consensus in the Seller Community that Amazon is conscious of the impact that negative publicity might afford - certainly we’ve seen examples of just that in such matters as the 2016 Incentivized Review Policy Revision Initiative, among other instances before & since - but I strongly suspect that these incidents, having been run through a C-BA (“Cost-Benefit Analysis”) regimen by the bean-counters, tend to make little headway simply because TPTB decision-makers have determined that ignoring them (other than, perhaps, via the mechanism of internally-shrouded retaliations) poses little likelihood of any significant impact upon the bottom line.
Whether or not such a short-sighted POV holds much water in the long run remains to be seen…
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There are a few stories on local news about the “strike” but I have yet to see anything hit national. Not sure how effective a “strike” will be.
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They don’t have a union so any “strike” is really just a handful of people no-showing for work. They’ll get fired and the impact on operations should be minimal.
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Thanks for the prompt responses, which lead me to believe this should just be filed under the “much ado” option.
The fact that they are entering their fifth year of this organized protest would seem to indicate a certain level of powerlessness. It will apparently take something larger than this movement to effect any meaningful change.
Did have to chuckle at the one worker holding up a sign stating that they “are not robots.”
Maybe not you, buddy, but have you looked around at your “co-workers” lately? 
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I’m not certain that the US-based activities will lead to any more delay than is routinely expected by BFCM online shoppers due simply to volume.
I did find this:
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5014981-amazon-strike-workers-5-things/
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The meaningful change that’ll happen is when the majority of these jobs are replaced by actual robots.
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The strike and boycott are working. For the first time since I started selling, I got 0 sales today.
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This time of year we are way, way off. We always are.
Our failure to come up with holiday gifts that people want. We have not had a goose egg yet (no not talking about the golden egg) in this season but we have been close.
I know I don’t need to say this to you, you have also been around a long time. Just is what it is. These are the days that Amazon first puts up “Will NOT be delivered by the holiday.” for FBM items. Now we are seeing that coming up for FBA items.
That and the world is a mess right now. Time will tell if the Teamsters are harming us 3P sellers.
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This is too small a sample size.
I had my second biggest online sale ever yesterday. But that sample is also too small.
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Hmm…I just had an amusing thought…
If I were Amazon upper management, facing a strike that decreased the ability to fill Amazon and FBA orders, I would very quietly have the buy box rules re-written to temporarily favor FBM over FBA.
Sold-by-Amazon sales would be adequately handled by the remaining warehouse workers. FBM sellers might work a bit harder, but they are not going to complain about more sales.
The customers will not notice any change. Most of them don’t recognize the difference between Amazon and 3P sellers anyway.
The only losers would be FBA sellers.
Would Amazon lose money on fewer FBA sales? Not if I had prepared earlier.
Back when the teamsters first started making threats about strikes, I would have jiggered FBA rules so that Amazon makes money on FBA regardless of their throughput. I would have instituted fees for warehouse use if their sales are slow.
So Amazon would make money on one type of fee if FBA sales go up, and on another type of fee if FBA sales go down.
It is sleazy, but I probably would have done it if the bonuses were big enough.
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