Amazon Sends ‘Vote No’ Instructions to Unionizing Employees

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Post by fireball_blaze » Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 2:48 PM UTC

Amazon Sends ‘Vote No’ Instructions to Unionizing Employees
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Post by sodality2 » Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 2:57 PM UTC

Detailed, 6 step instructions on how to open a ballot and mark no? Thanks, amazon. This is almost as scummy as asking the city to change traffic lights so union organizers have a harder time talking to workers in between shifts.

https://www.al.com/business/2021/02/jefferson-county-now-say...

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Post by maxehmookau » Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 3:07 PM UTC

Ugh, this is disgusting and so patronising.

Edit: Also, why are "union avoidance consultants" a thing? The US needs to fix its culture around unions. That's absolutely wild.

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Post by deelowe » Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 3:12 PM UTC

sodality2 wrote: post #2

Detailed, 6 step instructions on how to open a ballot and mark no? Thanks, amazon. This is almost as scummy as asking the city to change traffic lights so union organizers have a harder time talking to workers in between shifts. https://www.al.com/business/2021/02/jefferson-county-now-say...

I think an important detail that's needed here is how long the traffic back up issue has been a problem and when amazon requested it be change. If this has been an issue for years and amazon only recently requested the change, that's pretty scummy.

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Post by fooqux » Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 3:13 PM UTC

maxehmookau wrote: post #3

Ugh, this is disgusting and so patronising. Edit: Also, why are "union avoidance consultants" a thing? The US needs to fix its culture around unions. That's absolutely wild.

I don't think that's caused from the culture around unions so much as it's caused by the culture around capitalism. There are plenty of scummy niches that people have found ways of getting paid for. Everything from consultants to show your company how to layoff people to religious leaders and snake oil salesmen and conmen. It's a big spectrum.

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Post by AlexandrB » Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 3:13 PM UTC

Amazon's tactics in response to unionizing efforts been extremely revealing. Even if unionizing fails, I'm happy that it forced Amazon to show us all the level of contempt they have for their workforce.

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Post by ahelwer » Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 3:14 PM UTC

This Amazon union vote is one of the few things I see around me in the world where things have a chance of heading in the right direction. Truly hoping it succeeds and creates a nucleation event to stop our march into ever-more-innovative methods of worker exploitation.

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Post by duxup » Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 3:14 PM UTC

Call me crazy but I think the employer should get to make their case too.

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Post by toomuchtodo » Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 3:15 PM UTC

duxup wrote: post #8

Call me crazy but I think the employer should get to make their case too.

"As a trillion dollar company we can't afford better working conditions and pay for you"?

The only reason Amazon raised their fulfillment pay was because Bernie Sanders shamed them into it [1].

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=amazon+bernie+sanders+pay

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Post by Zealotux » Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 3:15 PM UTC

From a non-US point of view, this whole anti-union strategy from Amazon is somehow hilarious to witness on top of being sad. This kind of propaganda feels like its coming from another age, or dimension.