3. In labor terms, the facility was a "hot shop," where there hadn't been any organizing before one worker called the union. A winning campaign typically has a big head start.
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4. Amazon paid high wages for the area, with decent benefits, and as other folks are saying they ran a very smart anti-union campaign, up to an including a mail drop box for ballots on the way into work.
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Might we add decades of anti-union propaganda and the campaign Amazon committed to make sure the effort failed?
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Unions are their own worst advocates--people want to work for a successful business, and labor rules add rigidity making business uncompetitive; workers don't like working for declining businesses. Unions are only successful now in government where customers are forced to 'buy'.
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Yeah, the Amazon argument was that this union wasn't actually going to do anything for people, just take their money. The "no" workers I talked to said they had hard but rewarding jobs and didn't need a change.
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Many Southerners have been conditioned to hate unions.
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this is one of those dumbass "what's the matter with Kansas?" takes I love
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I don't understand that. You'll have better wages, benefits, working conditions, and more say over work with the union. Did the union fail to make that clear? I've been part of a successful union drive and that message is hard to beat. But was that the message?
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