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Re:Amazon Sends ‘Vote No’ Instructions to Unionizing Employees by missedthecue on Thursday February 25, 2021 @01:33PM (#26266324)
Kroger is unionized and they pay 1/2 of what Amazon does in my area. I don't think unionizing low skill work necessarily leads to higher wages
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Re:Amazon Sends ‘Vote No’ Instructions to Unionizing Employees by pwinnski on Thursday February 25, 2021 @03:32PM (#26267887)
And yet when comparing apples to apples, unionized workers apparently earn an average of 11.2% more[0].

0. https://www.epi.org/publication/why-unions-are-good-for-work...

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Re:Amazon Sends ‘Vote No’ Instructions to Unionizing Employees by fennecfoxen on Thursday February 25, 2021 @02:45PM (#26267296)
In the end, we can also expect that Amazon's money will some day be exchanged for robots, and most of these employees will lose the Amazon jobs.
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Re:Amazon Sends ‘Vote No’ Instructions to Unionizing Employees by zepto on Thursday February 25, 2021 @02:51PM (#26267375)
Only if the robots join the Union!
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