Workers Don’t Share Democrats’ Nostalgia for Unions
5/6/21
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4/21/21:
It wasn’t even close. The final count was 1,798 against and 738 for, 71% to 29%.
The issue in question was whether the employees at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, wanted to be represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. Not, as The Washington Post, owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, put it: a contest of “Big Tech vs. its workers.”
The workers weren’t one of the adversaries; they were the judges, and 71% of them decided — contrary to media coverage and despite nudges from President Joe Biden — not to choose the union.
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