It wouldn't take much for that reality to be distorted and end up leaving some people with the impression that Amazon has security cameras watching who votes. That's going to suppress the vote and potentially alter the outcome.

Just look at this thread and how much confusion over what the cameras are recording.

Surely they wouldn't watch the feed during counting hours! Who would go against their word so brazenly?

Votes are anonymous, people can watch the count all they want.

> During this portion, the NLRB will read off each voter’s name and both sides will be allowed to contest ballots, likely based on factors such as whether an employee’s job title entitles them to vote or an illegible signature. Any contested ballots will be set aside.

It looks like they aren't anonymous?!

I participated in an NLRB election about 10 years ago, and I believe the name was on the ballot envelope, so the count happened in two stages.

First, go through all of the envelopes, reading the names, and either side can contest ballots, which are set aside.

Then, the uncontested ballots are removed from the envelopes and counted.

If the vote margin is less than the number of contested ballots, that kicks off some kind of remediation process.

Oh good, that sounds nice. And how did the vote go?

The union lost by 2 votes. The election results were later thrown out because the company had engaged in illegal electioneering, but by the time this happened the company had fired several union organizers (also illegally) and the campaign lost steam.

aye....classic.

indeed.

Hopefully they mean this happens before voting? This is outrageous if not.

Intimidation is the name of the game when it comes to union-busting, I think it is pretty obvious that this is one more attempt at that.

Both ways. Unions have their share of intimidating people to vote for them.

Whataboutism doesn't really apply when it's a $1.5 trillion company vs a couple dozen over-extended union organizers.

It does when they have the ability to undetected break into the room where the ballots are and replace ballots. The crime is easy enough to plan. I'm not sure if security is good enough to stop it or not.

seems pretty trivial to just block the camera physically to prevent that