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Doc Sportello

(7,953 posts)
Tue Apr 13, 2021, 10:21 AM Apr 2021

How Amazon Crushed the Union Effort in Alabama

snip:

as one warehouse worker told me near the end of the election, “Everything came too late.”

Like others in this story, she spoke on condition of anonymity, fearful of retaliation from Amazon. While she was happy to see the public backing, she didn’t think it would make much of a difference when workers were already deep into a seven-week mail-in election. Amazon had been holding anti-union meetings and urging workers to vote as quickly as possible. Many voters had already cast their ballots.

This particular worker didn’t have her first in-depth conversation with a union organizer until after she’d been forced to sit through several of the anti-union meetings Amazon’s consultants ran.

“You just can’t escape it anywhere,” she said. “Amazon just bulldozed.”


https://www.huffpost.com/entry/amazon-crushed-union-threat-alabama_n_60746e5ce4b01e304234929d

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How Amazon Crushed the Union Effort in Alabama (Original Post) Doc Sportello Apr 2021 OP
Let's stop pretending years of anti-Union bullshit haven't worked it's magic. BradAllison Apr 2021 #1
+1 2naSalit Apr 2021 #2
Yes it's been a concerted effort Doc Sportello Apr 2021 #3
K&R for visibility. crickets Apr 2021 #4
Thanks Doc Sportello Apr 2021 #5
Workers should have won this one, appalachiablue Apr 2021 #6
Some of the responses in that thread were disappointing Doc Sportello Apr 2021 #7

BradAllison

(1,879 posts)
1. Let's stop pretending years of anti-Union bullshit haven't worked it's magic.
Tue Apr 13, 2021, 10:50 AM
Apr 2021

Fed by the likes of Reagan, Gingrich, Mitch....etc.

Doc Sportello

(7,953 posts)
3. Yes it's been a concerted effort
Tue Apr 13, 2021, 12:54 PM
Apr 2021

Repubs collaborating with big business, as they have for many years, to prevent unionization. It's not a coincidence that as union membership has declined, so has the middle class.

appalachiablue

(42,742 posts)
6. Workers should have won this one,
Tue Apr 13, 2021, 06:16 PM
Apr 2021

it's very disappointing. Some observers claim this was the fault of organizers and the union which had NLRB support throughout, a view that's hard to take.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142726564

Doc Sportello

(7,953 posts)
7. Some of the responses in that thread were disappointing
Wed Apr 14, 2021, 02:14 PM
Apr 2021

Same views I'm sure as some of the workers who voted not to unionize.

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