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Re:Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama by TulliusCicero on Friday April 09, 2021 @02:11PM (#26753925)
This kind of obtuse comment is part of why pro-union people have such a hard time convincing any anti-union people.

People have had bad experiences with unions protecting shitty employees far beyond what companies usually do, and the response amounts to, "NUH UHHH".

If that's what people have actually experienced, telling them "actually what you saw with your eyes isn't reality" is not effective messaging.

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Re:Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama by nnvvhh on Friday April 09, 2021 @02:20PM (#26754044)
The comment you responded to gave a response to multiple points, it's far from "nuh uh." Your characterization is inaccurate.
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Re:Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama by TulliusCicero on Friday April 09, 2021 @05:40PM (#26756549)
I'm specifically talking about dismissing concerns about how bad employees are protected or how promotions are handled.

> They don't either in the non-union corporate world either.

Basically, people have seen for themselves that unions seem to be anti-meritocratic beyond what companies they've seen do, and that's simply dismissed.

"No, you didn't actually see that."

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