How do legislators just allow this? Isn't this cut and dry illegal?
If I hazarded a guess, this might have not gone through their legal department first.
Amazon instructs New York workers “don't sign” union cards
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#13Why is stevespang's comment flagged as dead?
Shadowbanned, seemed excessive to me. I vouched for it at least.
I agree with the comment that Amazon is fucking nasty, but I don't think a comment just stating that is adding a lot to the conversation. More well thought out comments are usually more interesting, so I'd downvote it myself for that, even though I do agree with the sentiment.
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#14> The ALU may ask you to sign an authorization card or share a QR code to fill out an online authorization card. > This is a legally binding document Ooh scary ... is the employment contract signed by Amazon's employees not legally binding? How is it Amazon's business what their grown-ass employees can or cannot sign? > By signing a card or filling out an online authorization form, you are providing the ALU your pers…
obviously amazon doesn't have a real case against unions, but they can try to use scary language to confuse people
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#15How do legislators just allow this? Isn't this cut and dry illegal?
go look up what other illegal union busting behaviors they've gotten away with. and look at democrat or republican behaviors, such as biden actively strike-busting the other day
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#16Realistically an Amazon-wide union is the only way Amazon workers are going to get decent wage increases. If the USA is going to allow manufacturers to outsource the majority of well-paid (~$30/hr avg) manufacturing jobs to Mexico and China, without having any cross-border capital flow penalities (neoliberal globalism in a nutshell), then the major employers like Amazon and Walmart are going to have to double their w…
> Yes, that means less for the executives and shareholders. They may have to sell some of their properties, oh dear.
Unrealistic, in neoliberalism.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Shadowbanned, seemed excessive to me. I vouched for it at least.
I agree with the comment that Amazon is fucking nasty, but I don't think a comment just stating that is adding a lot to the conversation. More well thought out comments are usually more interesting, so I'd downvote it myself for that, even though I do agree with the sentiment.
I agree, though I don't agree with the shadowban (if I'm right about that).
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#18> The ALU may ask you to sign an authorization card or share a QR code to fill out an online authorization card. > This is a legally binding document Ooh scary ... is the employment contract signed by Amazon's employees not legally binding? How is it Amazon's business what their grown-ass employees can or cannot sign? > By signing a card or filling out an online authorization form, you are providing the ALU your pers…
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#19mrits: "You guys love the police union too, right? Right???"
The general idea, yeah. It proves how strong a union can be.
The implementation? No. A union for people who have monopoly on violence? No. A union that protects people who are actively hurting civilians without recourse? No.
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