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May 15 2021 01:21pm
i'll be the first to admit unions are corrupt, evil and have been terrible historically for the working class but as a ranking member of qanon and supporter of the true president donald trump i believe the time has come for our conservative friends to align ourselves with unions to wage war against jeff bezos who honestly looks like lex luthor

jeff bezos supported mail in voting for the election but opposed mail in voting for unionization at amazon because he wants to intimidate employees who dare to stand up to the pissing in a bottle work conditions he's forced upon the workers at amazon warehouses
https://theintercept.com/2021/03/25/amazon-drivers-pee-bottles-union/

if unions are bad for bezos then they must be good for hard working middle class white male heterosexual americans and if you call yourself a conservative then you must support unions in the fight against bezos, soros and all the other lefty overlords

would the federalist be writing pro union articles in 2021 if unions weren't good for the conservative cause?
https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/02/jeff-bezos-loved-mail-in-voting-for-the-2020-election-but-not-for-amazon-unionization-efforts/

Between his two major companies, Amazon and the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos does not hold consistent views on mail-in voting. When it could assist his preferred presidential candidate in reaching the White House, it was safe, and any questions to the contrary were mere attempts to undermine democracy. Yet now that his own employees at Amazon wish to use those same methods to vote for unionization, suddenly this wonderful format is not secure enough.

Amazon workers are voting to form a union to combat the shipping and tech giant’s notoriously poor working conditions, much to the company’s chagrin. Amazon has actively tried to prevent unions from gaining a foothold, creating a website detailing the benefits the company already provides and attempting to postpone the vote.

Employees at a fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama — which recently became the state with the highest COVID-19 positivity rate — out of fear of catching or spreading coronavirus, intended to have their election by mail. After all, for the past six months, the corporate press inundated readers and viewers with decrees that in contrast to deadly in-person voting during the pandemic, vote-by-mail was a perfectly safe alternative.

Amazon petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to postpone Bessemer’s election in order to prevent voting by mail. An exclusively in-person union vote could easily harm voter turn out, which could work to Amazon’s favor, and the corporate giant knows this. Its petition claims that the group of 5,800 employees is prohibitively large to organize voting by mail, an election format that has “serious and systemic flaws.” Amazon likewise told CNN that “the best approach to a valid, fair and successful election is one that is conducted manually, in-person.”
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May 15 2021 01:46pm
At least its not just a shitty link or terrible video with an angry one liner.

This was over weeks ago though. These werehouses are getting billions in raises and benefits. As an incentive to not try and unionize again yes, but getting them nontheless.
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May 17 2021 01:37am
Quote (duffman316 @ May 15 2021 09:21pm)
i'll be the first to admit unions are corrupt, evil and have been terrible historically for the working class


Stopped reading there. Thanks for the good laugh.
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May 17 2021 02:07am
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May 17 2021 03:38am
Unions have a history of coercion and violence in union elections, and getting away with it. Mail in voting is an extension of card signing, which has a history of abuse. Secret elections (which is how most Americans vote) protect workers from violence and intimidation.

https://www.mackinac.org/26958
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May 17 2021 04:10am
why work in amazon then?
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May 17 2021 06:41am
Quote (GodSmiter @ May 17 2021 04:07am)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1jUJ-2MsdA


How have i not seen this before
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May 17 2021 06:59am
Collective bargaining = bad for the exploiters.
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May 17 2021 07:30am
Quote (GodSmiter @ May 17 2021 04:07am)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1jUJ-2MsdA


gamers... we got the bad end
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May 17 2021 08:25am
You start to see the light. These people are only rich because we give money values. The day we stop supporting Money. All their business crumbles because there will be nothing to support/supply businesses of that sort.

Sadly, people are hooked to the paper bill with a # on it made of ink.
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