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Re:Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama by boublepop on Friday April 09, 2021 @12:25PM (#26752544)
The more I read about Unions in America the more I am befuddled. Don’t you have membership elections for the leadership? How do you even decide who the leadership is then?

If you do have elections, then your comment is akin to a republican proclaiming that democracy doesn’t work, but would work in principle but only of the current leadership was replace with Donal Trump.

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Re:Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama by dylan604 on Friday April 09, 2021 @12:37PM (#26752691)
>Don’t you have membership elections for the leadership?

So does Iran, Russia, etc. Do you feel like those elections are free and fair? I don't feel like union leadership votes are. Again, there's a lot of baggage associated with current unions. New unions are needed, not new leadership of existing unions.

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Re:Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama by boublepop on Saturday April 10, 2021 @04:24AM (#26759901)
Are you suggesting that the elections aren’t fair because you don’t like the outcomes of them or are you accusing them of rigging the elections?
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