⬆️🆙🐻to will red Alabama into existence

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    3 years ago

    End of MARCH? Wow, that's honestly ridiculous. So really this means "to give sufficient time for Amazon to find a way to shut this down or fire everyone involved"

    • opposide [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      edit-2
      3 years ago

      No it’s actually a very good thing because it allows people to vote who otherwise may have been inconvenienced by Amazon fucking around with shifts or trying to disallow certain forms of voting

      Amazon already tried to limit the voting form and window of time it takes place but they were overruled. This window of time was requested by the workers

      • Infamousblt [any]
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        3 years ago

        Interesting. All of my experience with union votes and strikes and such are basically "do them as fast as possible before there is time to retaliate" but if this is what the workers and union think is the best path then it must be. I really hope it works out

        • opposide [none/use name]
          hexagon
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          3 years ago

          That’s what I wondered at first as well but I trust that the workers have a better feel on this than I do. The only logical conclusion I can come to here is that Amazon wanted to shorten the window because union talks are gaining momentum

          • Nakoichi [they/them]
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            3 years ago

            Exactly, they don't want people to have the time to see all the positive support for this. They want their anti-union propaganda to have the most weight it can as its something they have been cultivating. More time to think about the vote gives workers more time to be brought up to speed on what it actually means to organize instead of just voting on preconceived assumptions.

            • grisbajskulor [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              My take is that it's bad because I'm bored & curious and I'd like to know the results tonight.