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As this piece says, redoing an election where 70% of workers voted against a union, because Amazon installed a mailbox, is absurd. Corrupt NLRB Puts Unions ove
by Bostonian 5y ago
As this piece says, redoing an election where 70% of workers voted against a union, because Amazon installed a mailbox, is absurd.
Corrupt NLRB Puts Unions over Workers https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/11/corrupt-nlrb-puts-unions-over-workers/ https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/11/corrupt-nlrb-puts-uni...
- kadoban 5y agoYour contention is that the only complaint against Amazon's behavior in the union vote was that Amazon installed a mailbox?
- notreallyserio 5y agoTheir source is National Review, which is a bastion of mid-to-high-effort, low-quality, bad faith arguments. Point of fact they left out the vote no propaganda handed out at mandatory meetings.
- Bostonian 5y agoReason Magazine also thinks the NLRB's redo is absurd. The political left is selective in its outrage over not respecting election results. https://reason.com/2021/11/30/nlrb-overturns-amazon-workers-decision-not-to-unionize-orders-new-election/ https://reason.com/2021/11/30/nlrb-overturns-amazon-workers-... NLRB Overturns Amazon Workers' Decision Not To Unionize, Orders New Election If providing campaign buttons were grounds for disqualifying the results, would any election in modern American history be valid? "The results of April's election suggest that it was the RWDSU's own failures rather than intimidation from Amazon that swung the outcome. About half of the Bessemer warehouse's roughly 5,800 workers voted, and only 738 voted for unionization. That's about 13 percent. In Bessemer, Amazon's campaign argued that workers were earning at least $15 per hour plus benefits, and that paying union dues would consume part of their paychecks. Those are reasonable reasons to vote against unionization! And that probably has more to do with the outcome in Bessemer than paper-thin conspiracy theories about campaign buttons and mailboxes."