Joe. You're quite correct. Amazon's employees don't do much in the way of strike action. That's probably because Amazon would come down like a ton of bricks on anyone trying organise a campaign for better wages and conditions. What happens instead is that employees leave in vast numbers, which in itself makes for difficult union organisation.

A number of people have asked whether conditions are as bad in other areas of the service sector. Well, I've done quite a few poorly paid jobs in my time and it's the best way I know of getting treated like shit. So there's plenty of scrooge employers besides Amazon, but I suspect that Amazon is the worst of a very bad bunch.

And BTW., I wan't saying don't boycott or petition. Both tactics can be very useful. But in the final analysis only industrial action will force employers like Amazon to see reason.

Hang on though. Isn't that why Maggie Thatcher spent so long destroying the unions in the fist place?