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This makes a false equivalency between no unions or decades old, powerful, public sector unions. Between those two ranges, the following nuance is important:
by dogman144 5y ago
This makes a false equivalency between no unions or decades old, powerful, public sector unions.
Between those two ranges, the following nuance is important:
- will a union of $15/hr Amazon employees, in aggregate, have the same power in the short term as a union of police or firefighters.
- mid-term, will those union bosses for Amazon become as powerful as the PD/FD/teachers union bosses?
- Are there lessons learned from when a private sector union like the Teamsters under Hoffa got out of control?
The answers to all of those, and likely more, are necessary to evaluate the outcomes of letting Amazon unionize. And from there, ya interesting discussions start - well, we do use Amazon for a lot. What if the local warehouse strikes? And so on.
Another way to evaluate it is the gut feeling about this: when an Amazon contractor sprints to your door, drops off a package at 8pm, apologizes for "being late," and sprints away to the next apartment.