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.
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.