Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama

Re:Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama by Diederich on Friday April 09, 2021 @03:31PM (#26755014)

I grew up in south-central Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s and I witnessed several incidents of gun violence, one of which was fatal, and I was personally fired at on two different occasions. These were all gang related, random acts of violence, though neither myself nor anybody I happened to be near at the time was in a gang.

> What are you doing to provoke this kind of behavior?

Standing on the sidewalk, hanging out with friends.

> Why haven’t you moved away to somewhere safer?

I left when I was 18.

I'd be happy to entertain any additional questions you or others might have.

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Re:Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama by selestify on Friday April 09, 2021 @06:30PM (#26757016)

That's nuts, thanks for sharing.

Would you happen to know why gangs would bother doing random acts of violence against teenagers standing on the sidewalk? I'd heard that the Italian mafia at least likes to keep themselves out of the public eye, interesting that other gangs don't.

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Re:Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama by IG_Semmelweiss on Friday April 09, 2021 @07:20PM (#26757380)

Because they can. Its a game, its a status symbol. Whatever. It doesn't matter what matters is... that it does happen.

They have literal games , such as "knockout". The game is literally to come from behind and hit a random passerby so hard that they fall on the ground... knocked out.

Its some real messed up stuff. I am sure you google.

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Re:Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama by koolba on Friday April 09, 2021 @07:23PM (#26757404)

Either demonstrating dominance or as part of initiation. Requiring recruits to perform illegal acts or even random violence is common. It’s to prove you’re willing to do what is asked of you by your superiors.

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