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Re:Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama by slantedview on Friday April 09, 2021 @01:37PM (#26753510)
> A monopsony employer is still a big problem, of course, it's just not a problem that unions are a solution to. Try antitrust, or lower regulatory barriers to small businesses so that there are more competing local employers etc.

I like your comment, but unions aren't necessarily meant to solve this problem. Amazon imposes terrible working conditions on its warehouse workers, which a union absolutely could address.

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Re:Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama by AnthonyMouse on Friday April 09, 2021 @01:56PM (#26753750)
> Amazon imposes terrible working conditions on its warehouse workers, which a union absolutely could address.

How? The union's negotiating power comes from the ability to go on strike. They make a demand, Amazon says no, they go on strike, Amazon closes that warehouse and sends people their cheap junk from a different one.

All the union can get you is the unemployment line, unless you do something to increase local competition for labor. In which case you don't need the union because employers have to compete through better working conditions.

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