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Amazon is intimidating and harassing organizing workers in Montreal

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Re: Amazon is intimidating and harassing organizing workers in Montreal

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It's a testament to how effective propaganda can be when you see how easily you can get people to vote against their own interests.

It's crazy to me that anyone who works in these Amazon warehouses votes agains tunionization but they do [1]. Even in the successful vote, there were still a lot of "no" votes.

Unionization in the US is the lowest of all OECD nations (~10%) [2]. Is it any wonder US workers don't get paid maternity leave, often don't get health insurance and get 2 weeks vacation?

This is why wedge issues matter. They sow discord to prevent class solidarity. You know who actually does have class solidarity? Billionaires. And the politicans they own.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/02/amazon-...

[2]: https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=TUD

Re: Amazon is intimidating and harassing organizing workers in Montreal

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It's incorrect but widely assumed that if someone says "America" they mean the USA. What's funny about it?

That Canada is also located in America, and if someone from Canada identifies "America" with the US they are belittling their own country? I mean, the sentence wouldn't have been less understandable if they had used "US-style" instead of "American-style"?

Re: Amazon is intimidating and harassing organizing workers in Montreal

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It's a testament to how effective propaganda can be when you see how easily you can get people to vote against their own interests. It's crazy to me that anyone who works in these Amazon warehouses votes agains tunionization but they do [1]. Even in the successful vote, there were still a lot of "no" votes. Unionization in the US is the lowest of all OECD nations (~10%) [2]. Is it any wonder US workers don't get paid…

Or maybe it's you who has fallen for propaganda. I think it's most likely that they know their own interests better than you do.
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