OA584: Amazon Workers Unionize!
Added 2022-04-08 05:08:53 +0000 UTCAmazon workers in Staten Island overcame extensive union busting efforts and won a vote to unionize! This is great news, and we can only hope it has a snowball effect. Listen as Andrew breaks down the journey, the conditions that led to the effort and the disgusting lengths Amazon went to to punish the employees who started organizing. In the A segment, we get a delightful little Alex Jones update. He finally showed up for a deposition!
Links: Docket, Jones moves to purge contempt, small wrinkle, NLRB order on bogus Amazon election, Smalls fired, Exhibit 13, Amazon racist comments, 29 US Code § 157 - Right of employees as to organization, 29 US Code § 158 - Unfair labor practices
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Comments
I really want to be offended by all the obvious not-C propaganda in the #T3BE thread this week😬
2022-04-09 23:16:05 +0000 UTCUS labor law is defined by bargaining units which means the workers need to share a community of interests and to exclude those from the units that “have meaningfully distinct interests in the context of collective bargaining that outweigh similarities”. It's also really hard to win a national or sectoral union election. Imagine trying to win 50%+1 for all the warehouse workers in Amazon. In addition, when a small part of a company has strong support, the company will try to expand the unit by claiming that more people have a community of interests (adding janitors, mechanics to a group of warehouse runners) or they will try to restrict the unit to divide the workers.
TheEthicalJerk
2022-04-08 14:05:40 +0000 UTCI am totally unfamiliar with unions, and am daft at the best of time so I'm sure there's an obvious answer I am failing to grasp, but I'll ask and hope the answer comes along; Why is it Amazon employees seem to have to form multiple, discrete unions for every individual warehouse? Wouldn't it make more sense to just set one up representing the interest of all Amazon warehouse workers in each state or nation wide, rather than rely on small, separate sets?
JustAGuy
2022-04-08 14:01:31 +0000 UTC
