Bring Amazon jobs to Hampton Roads! (salary, housing, relocate)

[goofy328]

Someone should have told Amazon that New York was a union town. Amazon does not employers to organize, under any circumstances.

So it is pretty obvious that Amazon will relocate these jobs somewhere in the South, where unions are not the norm.

I say bring the jobs here. Nashville wants the work, but they're already getting 5,000 jobs anyway. We need the work.

Bring the other 25,000 jobs to Hampton Roads!

[tabula rasa]

These are not warehousing jobs; they're tech/management jobs with an average salary of $150K, per reports. They're an expansion of what Amazon does at its HQ in Seattle, which is very much a union town.


They were also looking for space with a downtown feel, and put an emphasis on access to mass transit in their original request for bids. This is why the original Hampton Roads proposal was DOA.

[goofy328]

Originally Posted by tabula rasa

These are not warehousing jobs; they're tech/management jobs with an average salary of $150K, per reports. They're an expansion of what Amazon does at its HQ in Seattle, which is very much a union town.


They were also looking for space with a downtown feel, and put an emphasis on access to mass transit in their original request for bids. This is why the original Hampton Roads proposal was DOA.

But they did not want workers at the NYC campus to unionize. I'm not making this stuff up.

Union issue, not subsidies uproar, may have soured Amazon on New York

[HRVT]

Originally Posted by goofy328

But they did not want workers at the NYC campus to unionize. I'm not making this stuff up.

Union issue, not subsidies uproar, may have soured Amazon on New York

Either way, Hampton Roads does not have the population/workforce skill set to support Amazon to the degree of 25000 jobs. On top of that, mass transit is virtually non existent in Hampton Roads (compared to metros Amazon seriously considered short of maybe Raleigh).

[goofy328]

Originally Posted by HRVT

Either way, Hampton Roads does not have the population/workforce skill set to support Amazon to the degree of 25000 jobs. On top of that, mass transit is virtually non existent in Hampton Roads (compared to metros Amazon seriously considered short of maybe Raleigh).

True

[MaskedRacer]

Some city will have to sell their soul to get Amazon. Probably not worth it.

[goofy328]

Originally Posted by MaskedRacer

Some city will have to sell their soul to get Amazon. Probably not worth it.

New York tried but the streets made themselves heard, as they should, as that would have been just another step in their gentrification efforts to cleanse NYC of their service worker economy.