to the employees at Amazon trying to unionize: good luck...this is a hard hard road in the US. I worked for a large automotive repair chain briefly in 2007 th

to the employees at Amazon trying to unionize: good luck...this is a hard hard road in the US. I worked for a large automotive repair chain briefly in 2007 that eventually unionized after 3 years. working conditions were absolutely miserable and unsafe. The garage pit for oil changes caught fire twice in a year due to lack of maintenance from management. At some point our oil heating system burst before christmas and we were all made to work with no heat over new years. we habitually hired anyone with a pulse and paid the price in OSHA violations until our insurance dropped us. the last straw was when someone lost half their foot under a jerry-rigged lift that management wouldnt fix for a year. Once we did get a union, management closed the shop and chained the doors. six of our long-timers and a very nice local doctor got together and bought the property from the franchise owner out of bankruptcy. The Local 701 chipped in and helped re-brand the shop and even replaced the aging air compressors.