OK, there are a number of companies that are supremely awful to their workers, and Amazon, who just fired an employee for demanding a safer working environment, is at the top of the list.
If you believe that strong measures need to be taken, then the sit-down strike, technically illegal since 1939, needs to be forgiven.
There are two issues here, and the first is that this action has technically been illegal since 1939, and so one should anticipate that local law enforcement will be called in, and that they will remove strikers with an absolute maximum of brutality, since this is what police departments have done since time immemorial.
The second issue is that some of the worst abusers of their workers (**cough** Instacart **cough**) are (not a surprise) gig/sharing econom app based business like Uber, Lyft, Instacart, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Amazon Flex, Deliveroo, DoorDash, Grubhub, etc.
It’s tough to organize a sit-down strike when there is no factory/warehouse floor to sit-down IN.
Some variant of Simon Weckert’s performance art, where he took a little red wagon and 99 second hand smart phones running google maps to create virtual traffic jams might do the trick, though:
I would note that this is not just about protecting the workers, because companies like Instacart are putting their customers at risk of Covid-19 as well.
I think that this needs to be done.
That being the case, what are the tools, beyond cheap second hand phones, are necessary to execute such a strategy?
Employers routinely break the law to prevent unionization, and it is time for workers to return the favor.