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> Maybe a majority of the workers there prefer the status quo? Analysis showed this is what happened. Please don't mistake that to mean the status quo is good.
by heymijo 5y ago
> Maybe a majority of the workers there prefer the status quo?
Analysis showed this is what happened. Please don't mistake that to mean the status quo is good. There is an enormous power imbalance between Amazon and the laborers in Bessemer, Alabama.
This has happened many, many times throughout American history. Coal towns are a canonical example of holding all the cards against labor. The hallmarks of that relationship exist here.
- pydry 5y agoIIRC amazon managed to swing it so the cohort voting was dominated by newbies who got hit only by the anti union propaganda, hadn't yet suffered the worst excesses from management and were keen to not rock the boat and lose the job they'd just gotten.
- heymijo 5y agoThat’s good context. Thank you. It speaks to the power imbalance.