Chapter 848 (1/2)

Over the weekend, in the media's heated discussion on the first day of igritte's listing, igritte's share price continued to rise for three consecutive days in the new week when the North American stock market opened. Its market value once exceeded $260 billion, and the NASDAQ technology stock market continued to march forward.

Until October 12.

James Mann, a former employee of the logistics distribution center of Amazon online mall in Wisconsin, suddenly filed a lawsuit to the local court, accusing the online mall team of illegally preventing its employees from forming a union to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests, and maliciously suppressing union advocates.

James Mann, 37, was hired as a sorter of Amazon's Wisconsin logistics distribution center last year. In the public prosecution documents, the middle-aged man claimed that he was fired in June this year because he was suppressed by actively calling on the employees of the distribution center to form a union after he joined the company last year and has been unemployed at home.

James Mann asked igritte to make an official written apology for the incident, pay more attention to guaranteeing the legitimate rights and interests of workers, and ask for all kinds of compensation totaling 16 million US dollars.

In an interview with a local TV station, James Mann also pointed the spearhead at Simon and igritte's top management, accusing that igritte's IPO has made a large number of people become billionaires and millionaires. However, the employees of Wisconsin distribution plant can only get $9 an hour in long, boring and repetitive work every day, far lower than the former GM factory worker The former employee of the company was paid $23 an hour.

James Mann believes that this serious unfair situation is mainly due to the current severe crackdown on trade unions by various enterprises, which makes the bottom workers unable to protect their own rights and interests. Therefore, in the interview, he also called on the distribution center employees to unite again to form a trade union.

The response of igritte's media PR team was very timely.

James Mann hit back immediately.

It's a complete stigma to smoke and go slow. It's mainly because middle-aged people happen to be ill at that time.

You come and I go.

This kind of lawsuit can't be solved in a short time, and it will certainly drag on for a long time. Igrit, who has a strong legal team, is not afraid of this kind of drag. He can't get rid of it when he sees a move.

Simon never felt that a lot of things happened for no reason.

Just like this time.

After some investigation, the results were quickly obtained. One partner of the Wisconsin law firm that supported James Mann's lawsuit against igritte happened to be the husband of an assistant to the team of Democratic Senator Craig Ames, who was defeated in last year's mid-term election.

Some of the small around the relationship, a little combing but also clear.

The other side suddenly set off such a thing, most likely to prepare for next year's election. 1996 is not only a presidential election year, but also a biennial year for the change of Congress.

The local Democratic Party in Wisconsin obviously wants to regain the initiative it lost in last year's mid-term elections.

Senators serve for six years.

Robert hotwell, who defeated Craig Ames last year, is still in a stable position. The number of other senators is less than the year of transition. The Democratic Party can only make up for it in the biennial House election. In addition, Clinton won 10 electoral votes in Wisconsin in the 1992 election, which is not an dispensable number, It may also have the consideration of attracting the bottom public to stabilize this one vote position.

The rust belt unions have always been strong supporters of the Democratic Party.

As for the integrity of the Clintons, it doesn't matter whether they want to be in the White House or not.

Simon believes the lawsuit is just an appetizer.

The current state of the westero system can no longer be described as a tree in the forest. It is a towering giant tree standing on the flat prairie, where you can find any evil wind and evil spirit.

Sure enough, one weekend after Robert Mann sued, on October 16, more than 200 truck drivers of the three contractors responsible for the transportation task 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 breakdown of the negotiation between employees and employers.

This time it's a surprise.

A total surprise attack.

The news soon broke out that the truck drivers of one of the contractors were dissatisfied with the company's compensation for a traffic accident that had been pestering for more than a month. Therefore, the truck drivers' Union of the United States directly decided to bypass the contractor in the form of strike and put forward conditions to igritte company, asking igritte to abandon the contractor mode and establish an exclusive department of transportation The door employs a team of truck drivers directly.

If last week's lawsuit is just an appetizer that has restrained the rise of igrit's share price, the sudden strike of truck drivers has paralyzed one of Amazon's large logistics distribution centers, which is a very obvious direct impact.

The relationship of interests involved in this matter is also quite complicated.

At the political level, and even those who are planning to short the technology stocks of the Westeros system, it's just that the matter itself is rather complicated.First of all, it starts with the operation mode of Amazon's logistics distribution system.

At this stage, the logistics distribution system of Amazon online mall is only a primary stage of the development of e-commerce. Amazon's construction of logistics distribution centers around the United States is only the first stage of delivery from Amazon warehouse to contracted express company, not direct to customers.