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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by xibalba on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @02:55PM (#27910476)
Wage growth is starting to take off in the US due to extremely fierce competition over job applicants. If, as you say, Amazon doesn't pay employees enough, they will leave in droves for better paying jobs.

Of course, if your facts aren't correct, they won't. To wit, 71% of Amazon workers in the recent unionization drive in Alabama voted against a union, citing, of all things, the good pay and strong benefits of the job.

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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by cwkoss on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @08:09PM (#27913766)
Didn't Amazon also do a whole bunch of union busting before that vote, including trying to film the ballot box? (Or am I getting my Amazon union busting stories confused?)

I wonder if 71% of workers who voted against the union really believed that, or what percentage just voted it down for fear of losing their jobs.

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