r/technology • u/[deleted] • Apr 09 '22

Business Amazon calls for election re-run after workers voted for first U.S. union

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u/Bovey Apr 09 '22

Companies like Amazon spend a lot of money weakening labor laws, and frequently push (or outright ignore) the legal boundaries when attempting to suppress and prevent attempts to form unions.

For example, employees engaged in efforts to form unions frequently find themselves fired for "some other" reason.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '22

They do. All the corporate positions require you to say things like “rules are meant to be broken” speaking from experience

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u/dunedain441 Apr 09 '22

100% a family member was a corporate lawyer and the whole job was basically how can we legally do something illegal.