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I wonder how much money Amazon would be willing to give each employee per year, or per hour, to legally sign away their right join a union? $3/hr? $0.03/hr? $1
by readonthegoapp 5y ago
I wonder how much money Amazon would be willing to give each employee per year, or per hour, to legally sign away their right join a union?
$3/hr? $0.03/hr? $10/hr?
Presumably they've done the math.
Ditto the for-profit, VC-backed digital labor union folks (and their vc backers):
https://unitworkers.com/ https://unitworkers.com/
Of course, Amazon -- and most companies, presumably -- want to hit the sweet spot -- they don't want to offer _everything_ they'd have to give up if they were to allow a union to form -- they want to offer up _just_ enough to keep the workforce from organizing (just enough carrot to go along with all the illegal sticks).
Myself, as a hippie founder-type, outside of a full worker co-op, I still don't know how to think about unions.
I'm generally pro-union, pro-worker, etc., but at _my_ startup? Won't having a union kill it before it starts? If not, how not? Seems too risky to me.