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Re:Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama by foepys on Friday April 09, 2021 @01:32PM (#26753457)
Do they get free university with an interest free loan of which they only have to pay 50% and only up to 10,000€ back? And 20+ days vacation days plus 6 weeks paid sick leave plus 18 months job guarantee in case of a longer healing process while being paid 60% of their last wage? Plus 1-2 years unemployment benefits, also at 60% of last wage? Plus 60% paid for up to a year in case of being on furlough during a pandemic? Plus parental leave of 12+2 months at 67% of last wage? Plus full health care regardless of being employed? Plus no deductibles, limits, or copay for any health issue?

Talking about Germany here by the way.

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Re:Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama by splitstud on Friday April 09, 2021 @03:17PM (#26754847)
I'll take the lower tax rate, thanks
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Re:Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama by murderfs on Friday April 09, 2021 @05:45PM (#26756587)
Do they get coronavirus vaccines?
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Re:Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama by foepys on Saturday April 10, 2021 @02:06AM (#26759325)
I don't know what this has to do with anything but Germany administered 720,000 doses on Thursday and the Pfizer vaccine was actually developed in Germany by a company called BioNTech.
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Re:Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama by ekianjo on Friday April 09, 2021 @04:01PM (#26755352)
> Talking about Germany here by the way.

Talking about the wealthiest country in Europe. I'm glad you are not cherry picking your data when you expose facts.

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Re:Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama by foepys on Saturday April 10, 2021 @02:14AM (#26759356)
This is in comparison to the US as this whole thread is about the US.

Unless you mean that the US is in fact not a wealthy country if you are looking at above facts. Then that's something that could be argued.

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Re:Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama by bhupy on Saturday April 10, 2021 @04:58PM (#26765070)
No, this whole thread is about Alabama.

The US is almost exactly as diverse as the EU (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_terr...). Alabama is more comparable to Estonia than it is to Germany.

If you want to compare apples to apples, there are States in the US where citizens pay higher taxes and get benefits like free university: https://money.cnn.com/2017/04/08/pf/college/new-york-free-tu...

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