see url:
https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/us/amazon-alabama-union-busting-vote-b1829340.html
see full report... Memories, memories, memories...It took me (and a
small group of others) 7 years to get the union recognised in a company
for which I worked, way back in the 1980s...If at first you don't
succeed, try, try and try again...😉 All that trouble and all that
aggro and all that soul searching. The company disappeared a few years
after I was passed on involuntarily, to pastures new...nuffink to do
with me or the union, market forces, takeovers and changes in television
technology brought about a huge change...increased reliability and
smaller prices mean that fewer television engineers were required...and
wages became a lot lower due to de-skilling. Moving on is all part of
the game nowadays...no job lasts very long and the increased
sophistication of computer technology along with cheaper costs of
production is killing many a skilled job and lowering standards of wages
and conditions in IT these days...
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For a while, at least, it was a David vs Goliath battle.
Workers at a warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, chose to take on one of the
biggest companies in the world and form a union. If they were
successful, they would be the first in the company’s history. The
potential for similar efforts in thousands of warehouses across the
country would have risen dramatically. Amazon, America’s second-largest
employer, would have been forced to contemplate an entirely new
relationship with its gigantic workforce.
When the results were in, however, the analogy broke down. Goliath had
won. By Friday morning, the “no” vote on the question of whether to form
a union had secured a majority.
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