Amazon Warehouse Workers to Decide Whether to Form Company's First U.S. Union

Re:Amazon Warehouse Workers to Decide Whether to Form Compan... by SpicyLemonZest on Friday January 15, 2021 @03:34PM (#25796019)

I tend to agree, but the flipside is that we need trust the workers' judgment when a new union doesn't form. I see a troubling tendency among union organizers to assume that anyone who's thinking clearly would want to be in a union - if a unionization vote fails, that can only mean the company must have tricked or bullied people into casting the wrong vote.

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Re:Amazon Warehouse Workers to Decide Whether to Form Compan... by wrsh07 on Friday January 15, 2021 @03:40PM (#25796117)

Please keep in mind that sometimes employees are punished for considering unionization, so it's possible that them not unionizing is a reaction to that.

Assuming no external pressure, though, I absolutely agree: if workers don't see the benefit in unionizing, they should not unionize.

(Of course, I would also like to see them able to unionize if they do see benefit from it)

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Re:Amazon Warehouse Workers to Decide Whether to Form Compan... by SpicyLemonZest on Friday January 15, 2021 @03:42PM (#25796140)

True, and I definitely don't mean to deny the existence of illegitimate union-busting efforts.

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