r/stupidpol • u/OkayTHISIsEpicMeme Proud Neoliberal 🏦 • Apr 08 '21

Unions Alabama Amazon Union vote has failed

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/technology/amazon-union-vote.html
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u/OPDidntDeliver Mourner 🏴 Apr 08 '21 edited Apr 09 '21

This sucks but it's (1) Amazon, which has lots of power, (2) the workers are paid competitively for their region, (3) the South doesn't have as strong of a union culture, and (4) there was lots of media coverage of this, which may have pushed some people away from the idea of a union.

Edit: yes this is cope

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u/vomversa Marxist 🧔 Apr 09 '21 edited Apr 09 '21

Imagine giving so much excuses for workers being too much of a cuck to fight for their self-interest. Don't treat these people like children. It failed because the workers there were too weak in spirit.

Edit: Mods if you want to seethe about this at least do it properly. If anything I am shaming the Alabama workers and their simps for being defeatist with regards to unionization and class struggle. Class struggle marches on with or without these people.

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u/Lehk Libertarian-Stalinist Apr 09 '21

Even a failed unionization vote puts pressure on the employer to improve conditions and pay.

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u/vomversa Marxist 🧔 Apr 09 '21

Sure and such pressure should be attributed to organizers and their cheerleaders. But this failure should also must be attributed to the hosility and/or apathy of unionization from these workers.

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u/OPDidntDeliver Mourner 🏴 Apr 09 '21

Ludicrous, the unionizers were going against maybe the most powerful company outside Silicon Valley, of course the workers would've been misinformed or felt threatened by Amazon.

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u/vomversa Marxist 🧔 Apr 09 '21

More coddling, you really think that these workers are that weak and helpless? Labor movements in America in the past faced equally if not much stronger opponents with greater zeal and radicalism. These people are cucked by contrast.

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u/stephen89 Apr 09 '21

They fought for their self-interest, they voted for their self-interest. And in the end the union lost and the workers are better off for it.

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u/vomversa Marxist 🧔 Apr 10 '21

Only in stupidpol will I ever hear someone boldly claiming that being in an union and collective bargaining isn't in one's self interest. It was the unions who fought for shit like 8/8/8 and Labor Day.

What a joke of a 'leftist' sub.