{"id":175716,"date":"2020-12-17T20:29:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/12\/17\/if-you-thought-that-amazon-was-bad\/"},"modified":"2020-12-17T20:29:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T01:29:00","slug":"if-you-thought-that-amazon-was-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/12\/17\/if-you-thought-that-amazon-was-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Thought that Amazon Was Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just watch what they are going to do to kill the unionization drive in Alabama<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is going to make WalMart look like John L. Lewis: <\/p>\n

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Amazon.com Inc<\/a>. workers at an Alabama warehouse received approval to hold a unionization vote, the first such election since 2014 at the nation\u2019s second-largest employer, testing the potential for additional labor organizing at the retailing giant. <\/p>\n

The National Labor Relations Board Tuesday ruled that employees at Amazon\u2019s Bessemer, Ala., warehouse can decide whether to create a bargaining unit within the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, according to an NLRB official. The date of the election and other terms have yet to be determined. A hearing about the vote is scheduled for Friday. <\/p>\n

A majority of the workers would have to choose unionization for the employees to gain representation. The Alabama warehouse has about 1,500 full- and part-time employees, according to the union, although Amazon has said the total is higher. <\/p>\n

Though many hurdles remain, labor experts say a successful campaign by workers could inspire similar efforts at other Amazon warehouses. The company has more than 800,000 U.S. employees, second only to Walmart Inc<\/a>. in the country, as well as more than 760 facilities in its fulfillment network, according to logistics consultant MWPVL International.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026 <\/p>\n

Hourly Amazon workers have never previously formed or joined a union in the U.S. The same is true at Walmart<\/a> Inc., which has about 1.5 million U.S. employees.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is untrue.  Wal-Mart had its butchers in one store unionize, and Wal-Mart fired all of its butchers in all of its stores in response<\/a>, so for about a week, Wal-Mart was unionized.<\/p>\n

The retailer has seen its toughest labor battles in Europe, where union participation is common in some countries and government authorities have been quicker to confront the company. A French court in the spring ordered Amazon to stop selling nonessential items while the company addressed coronavirus- safety measures, prompting Amazon to temporarily close its French warehouses<\/a>. <\/p>\n

While Alabama typically hasn\u2019t been known for unionizing efforts, RWDSU represents workers across the poultry and healthcare industries in the state.<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’d say expect every dirty trick in the book to be deployed by Amazon, but the reality is that Amazon is going to go way past the book here.<\/p>\n

Expect to see a level of evil heretofore unseen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just watch what they are going to do to kill the unionization drive in Alabama. This is going to make WalMart look like John L. Lewis: Amazon.com Inc. workers at an Alabama warehouse received approval to hold a unionization vote, the first such election since 2014 at the nation\u2019s second-largest employer, testing the potential for …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[617,364,465,442],"class_list":["post-175716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-amazon","tag-evil","tag-labor","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}