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Re:How Amazon Crushes Unions by cestith on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @10:41AM (#26477291)
Alabama is a right to work state. Amazon is telling people at the Bessemer warehouse that they could be forced to pay union dues whether or not they join the union, which is not true under Alabama law.
Re:How Amazon Crushes Unions by Shivetya on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @11:11AM (#26477782)
However the US Congress is pushing the PRO Act which will basically force you to join any union and it actually forbids right to work laws. It will even permit unions marching against related businesses as a means to intimidate others; in others say your supplier has issues well they can then march on you and vica versa.

Welcome to the pay off for the election

Re:How Amazon Crushes Unions by cestith on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @11:28AM (#26478073)
Picketing has been legal for a long, long time. There's no law now that says I can't go out and picket on the sidewalk outside Whole Foods or Walmart.
Re:How Amazon Crushes Unions by SpicyLemonZest on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @11:50AM (#26478409)
The commenter is referring to what's called a "secondary strike". These are heavily regulated under current law (https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/se...) and the PRO act would repeal these rules.
Re:How Amazon Crushes Unions by cestith on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @04:40PM (#26482623)
A secondary strike is only one kind of action, and "march on" does not clearly indicate a secondary strike although it may include that. Bannering or leafletting and other types of protest could fall under "march on", could they not?

It's legal right now, even as clarified in the link you provided, to encourage a boycott of a struck product at a retailer. What's not legal is organizing a boycott of a whole store because they are stocking one or a few products from a supplier whose products are struck. That is, unless it's a company store that is the same employer as the producer of the products for which production is under a strike.