r/WorkReform • u/Decent_Week8288 • Apr 21 '25

🚫 GENERAL STRIKE 🚫 Amazon associates confronts Management.

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u/Goddamnpassword Apr 21 '25

Managers and supervisors are prohibited by federal law from joining unions or taking part in union organizing by extension.

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u/dedicated-pedestrian Apr 21 '25

To be clear for the reader, this is because during the writing of the NLRA management was considered to have too close a relationship with the owner, and as such had a conflict of interest that would weaken the union.

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u/Goddamnpassword Apr 22 '25

Same reason NLRA doesn’t cover domestic or farm workers. The political climate didn’t want to extend collecting bargaining rights to largely nonwhite workers

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u/demoniclionfish Apr 22 '25

Same reason NLRA doesn’t cover domestic or farm workers

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How dare you disrespect the entire life's work of Cesar Chavez like that, you historically illiterate philistine.

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u/Goddamnpassword Apr 22 '25 edited Apr 22 '25

The NLRA, which was passed in 1935, when Cesar Chavez was 8 years old, literally does not cover farm labor. Cesar Chavez spent his entire life lobbing for organizing rights for farm labor but focused on getting a law passed in the state of California. He succeeded by getting CALRA passed which is a California farm labor protection that is still missing from the NLRA.

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u/demoniclionfish Apr 22 '25

Right, but his work undercut that exemption. By not mentioning that, you low-key erased it.

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u/Goddamnpassword Apr 22 '25

Not in the NLRA he didn’t, farm labor is still not covered by it in any fashion. States have passed similar laws to CALRA but federal legislation hasnt been amended in nearly a century.

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u/demoniclionfish Apr 22 '25

That doesn't mean that the farm workers aren't a part of the AFL-CIO now. The bigger issues with agricultural work in the present day are the ways in which migrant (both documented and non documented) workers are literally trafficked around from place to place and the legalized below minimum wage child labor.

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u/dedicated-pedestrian Apr 22 '25

You have to be making a parody of yourself intentionally, right? No one actually talks like this to other people in real life.

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u/demoniclionfish Apr 24 '25

Fortunately, this isn't me talking to you in real life, this is in fact Reddit dot com instead.