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A comment on Amazon's anti-union site for its Alabama warehouse. Parent comment

Re:Amazon's anti-union site for its Alabama warehouse by jakelazaroff on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @01:26AM (#26011138)
Unions increase the negotiating power of those selling their labor. That’s not forcing the private sector to act like a charity, it’s just giving workers more leverage.

The thing I don’t understand about your argument is that you say that giving “monopolistic control over the negotiating power of a company's work force will be economically harmful”. But companies already have monopolistic (well, monopsonistic) control over their workforce. So why is this an acceptable status quo?

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Re:Amazon's anti-union site for its Alabama warehouse by tacitusarc on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @01:52AM (#26011261)
The broad strokes claim that "companies" are monopsonistic is inaccurate... Some are, but it largely depends on location.

I think do unions in right to work states are excellent, though.

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