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Re:US labor board official orders Amazon to redo union vote ... by srj on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @01:44PM (#29395793)
Many regions in the US have been hit hard by globalization and manufacturing job loss. The choice isn't necessarily viewed as union vs non-union, but unemployment vs non-union. It seems they are choosing the jobs.

They are competing against other parts of the world in terms of labor supply. I don't know how you overcome that without either demonstrably higher productivity or protectionism.

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Re:US labor board official orders Amazon to redo union vote ... by wolverine876 on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @12:32AM (#29401024)
The US southeast has been 'anti-union' since long before globalization. I read a history of the Great Depression, and in the 1930s the same reactionary anti-communist propaganda was used to defeat unionization.
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