Amazon Says It Doesn’t ‘Employ’ Drivers, But Records Show It Hired Firms to Prevent Them From Unionizing::Amazon spent $14.2 million total on anti-union consulting in 2022, filings with the Department of Labor show.
Amazon Says It Doesn’t ‘Employ’ Drivers, But Records Show It Hired Firms to Prevent Them From Unionizing::Amazon spent $14.2 million total on anti-union consulting in 2022, filings with the Department of Labor show.
I’ve always been a bit conflicted about unions. Those seem to be a good thing up to a point but I sometimes hear stories of them also taking it a bit too far and basically blackmailing employees to do what ever they want because otherwise they’re losing their entire work force. In the case of amazon though it seems like a union is exactly what they need. It’s a subject I need to research more. And I’m saying this as a member and beneficiary of extremely strong union.
You definitely need to research it more. Do you like overtime? Sick time? Weekends off? Vacations? Unions fought and won all of those things. You would be working like they did in the 19th century without unions and you wouldn’t have time to talk about it on Lemmy.
I don’t blame them, companies tend to push so much anti-union propaganda it gets to them eventually.
I worked at Wegmans when I was a teenager. I would be sat in a room with a bunch of other 17-22 year olds, and we’d be directed to listen to an hour of anti-union propaganda, telling us how Walmart has it so bad (not to point out that they had a union, because they don’t, just that Wegmans treated us “fairly” compared to the competition), and to reject any advancements from a union.
I only worked there a year, but I had friends who worked there through college, by the end the anti-union propaganda got to them, and they sounded a lot like the top level comment in this chain (“I’m sure some unions help but some are also bad”), took some long chats to get them off that heavy liberal propaganda and towards socialism, but they were eventually receptive.
That’s incredibly sad, thanks for getting them back on track
It’s always fun seeing the wins on the union calendar from a century ago. It’d be nice if they weren’t focused on just making money off us now.
What the hell are you on about? Unions are essential to a good and fair work environment. Without them, you are fighting for your rights against a company, by yourself. Those stories you’ve heard mean nothing if you don’t have any sources to back them up
Even bad unions are better than none.
Back in the day Australia had ultra stong workforce to the point of being absolute thugs. Dad said he literally got chased off a work site until he backpaid a year of union dues.
Now I’m not saying that was the right thing to do, but I do believe that every industry needs a union that is employee ran and to be able to freely talk to peers about pay and conditions.