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Amazon union appears defeated: Alabama warehouse workers reject historic organizing bid to form union
CNET ^ | 04/09/2021 | Laura Hautala

Posted on 04/09/2021 8:44:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 04/09/2021 8:44:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Amazonian suppressed the vote by requiring voter ID and chain-of-custody of ballots.


2 posted on 04/09/2021 8:47:55 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Anti-racism looks suspiciously like racism.)
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Having been in a union, I didn’t feel that the union was as interested in the workers as they were in their own well-being. The top guys made big bucks and made political decisions that I didn’t like. They also ran the store I worked for out of business. We were operating in a non-union town at union wages. While it was great to earn nearly four times the non-union rate it was obvious that it wasn’t a long term sustainable model. So, yep, the entire chain went under. What’s it called when an organism attaches to another organism and kills it?


3 posted on 04/09/2021 8:51:19 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: SeekAndFind

And now comes the punishment for having voted down the union. You just know it’s coming, in one form or another.


4 posted on 04/09/2021 8:55:31 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021)
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Unions are generally awful but if there is any company in the world that deserves them it is Amazon.

The workers just learned about vote fraud—up close and personal.


5 posted on 04/09/2021 8:57:03 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: SeekAndFind

So THAT is what all those Amazon work conditions ‘news’ stories were about.
I should have made the connection sooner!


6 posted on 04/09/2021 8:58:27 AM PDT by Little Ray (Corporations don't pay taxes. They collect them.)
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Parasitism.


7 posted on 04/09/2021 8:59:10 AM PDT by Little Ray (Corporations don't pay taxes. They collect them.)
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I kept seeing ads from Amazon saying that they start out their workers at $15/hr. Now I know why they were advertising that.


8 posted on 04/09/2021 9:00:02 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: SeekAndFind

The losers will start a systematic campaign of sabotage, frivolous lawsuits and work slow downs.


9 posted on 04/09/2021 9:00:56 AM PDT by The Louiswu (....................................................................................................)
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Guess there was no Norma Rae this time.


10 posted on 04/09/2021 9:01:02 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Just wait ‘til the newly discovered ‘ballots’ come rolling in.


11 posted on 04/09/2021 9:01:25 AM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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Really hard to pick a side on this one.

I predict the workers will get screwed either way.


12 posted on 04/09/2021 9:06:32 AM PDT by chrisser
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> Having been in a union, I didn’t feel that the union was as interested in the workers as they were in their own well-being. <

I was a union member for all of my working career. Unions were - at one time - absolutely, 100% necessary. But those unions have since morphed into oppressors themselves. I guess it’s the old “Animal Farm” routine.


13 posted on 04/09/2021 9:11:20 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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“Had Bessemer unionized, it likely would’ve sparked similar movements across the country,...”

Left never stops, they reload so better be ready.


14 posted on 04/09/2021 9:18:18 AM PDT by TonyChris (Didn't vote for Amazon in last election)
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And why didn’t the NLRB go After Amazon the way they go after Farms and Auto plants and DEMAND CARD CHECK for this Vote? They do every where else.


15 posted on 04/09/2021 9:23:23 AM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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Union for a bit. Then I moved and landed (unknowingly) in a right to work state.

If you’re living in a Yankee state you probably are in a union if you’re living in a Southern state the people just go to work and don’t feel the need to pay anybody because everything is just fine thank you...

At least that was my takeaway. I’m no longer in those trades but I didn’t really give a rip about being in the union or not but I didn’t think the union I was associated with really added anything of value... in my experience.


16 posted on 04/09/2021 9:33:30 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bessemer? I wonder how many of them had granddaddies who were involved with the Steelworkers Union.


17 posted on 04/09/2021 9:34:41 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; ...
Amazonian suppressed the vote by requiring voter ID and chain-of-custody of ballots.
LOL!

18 posted on 04/09/2021 9:36:31 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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I saw where the union thinks voting can’t be trusted. Oh really....


19 posted on 04/09/2021 9:37:17 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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and the union people crawled away...


20 posted on 04/09/2021 9:39:38 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there is no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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