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> Does the company have the right to try and convince employees to vote against the union? It depends upon whether you are interested in equality (no, not that
by monkeydreams 6y ago
> Does the company have the right to try and convince employees to vote against the union?
It depends upon whether you are interested in equality (no, not that kind), fairness or legality.
Legally speaking - I leave this for the lawyers. I don't know that Amazon have done anything illegal, or how closely they have come to the grey side legality.
Fairness and equality - well, Bezos has armies of lobbyists who influence politicians. His organisation has made it difficult to enlist employees into unions by such activities as changing traffic light signalling, etc, to prevent people addressing staff as they leave the company. These are options that Bezos has, which minimise the options available to the pro-union groups to recruit or inform employees. I doubt that this is the total extent of their anti-union activities.
My personal opinion, and this is largely the ASD aspect of me speaking here, is that I prefer fairness and loathe unfair conduct. Both sides offer their case, the employees decide. I don't think this is happening in this case, and it is the pro-union side who suffer, so it is the pro-union groups on whose side my sympathy lies.