Amazon instructs New York workers “don't sign” union cards
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#3Why is stevespang's comment flagged as dead?
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#4How do legislators just allow this? Isn't this cut and dry illegal?
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#5> 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 personal information.
Like Amazon monitoring my spending habits?
> By signing a card or filling out an online authorization form, you are authorizing the ALU to speak on your behalf.
And thats terrible how?
> The ALU is not part of Amazon and does not represent Amazon
Thats the whole point.
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#6"We care about your privacy but not your rights."
"Please suffer privately on your own."
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#7Why is stevespang's comment flagged as dead?
Shadowbanned, seemed excessive to me. I vouched for it at least.
Re: Amazon instructs New York workers “don't sign” union cards
#8How do legislators just allow this? Isn't this cut and dry illegal?
Because legislators historically are less interested in corporate/white collar crime.
Re: Amazon instructs New York workers “don't sign” union cards
#9How do legislators just allow this? Isn't this cut and dry illegal?
It's a huge grey area, largely up to the NLRB to decide when anti-union campaigners cross the line. They did similar tactics in the Alabama vote and were slapped for that behavior[1], and many other infractions, with an order to re-do the vote[2]. Amazon's execs and lawyers clearly think they have enough to lose (and their workers to gain) that it's worth finding exactly where the line is.
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[1] "The [NLRB] hearing officer also found objectionable Amazon's distribution of "vote no" pins and other anti-organizing paraphernalia to employees in the presence of managers and supervisors. ... U.S. labor law forbids companies from spying on organizing activities or leaving employees with the impression they are under surveillance. It also prohibits other actions if they are found to be coercive." https://www.reuters.com/business/amazon-interfered-with-unio...
[2] https://www.npr.org/2021/11/29/1022384731/amazon-warehouse-w...
Re: Amazon instructs New York workers “don't sign” union cards
#10Realistically 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 wages.
Yes, that means less for the executives and shareholders. They may have to sell some of their properties, oh dear.