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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 comex on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @02:28AM (#26011422)
Perhaps there are plausible anti-union arguments out there, but this Amazon website isn't making them. Instead we get text like this:

> IF YOU’RE PAYING DUES… it will be RESTRICTIVE meaning it won’t be easy to be as helpful and social with each other. So be a DOER, stay friendly and get things done versus paying dues.

It's impossible for me to imagine that anyone involved in drafting that text actually believed it was a meaningful argument.

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Re:Amazon's anti-union site for its Alabama warehouse by chordalkeyboard on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @02:43AM (#26011492)
Yeah that jumped out at me but it was probably a poorly phrased attempt at referring to the changes inherent in a unionized workplace. Like restrictions on how much work a person is allowed to do and conflict between employees who pay dues and employees who do not pay dues.

> It's impossible for me to imagine that anyone involved in drafting that text actually believed it was a meaningful argument.

You’re probably being hyperbolic but this lack of charity is one reason why we can’t have nice things.

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