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If 51% vote for unionization, what about the other 49%?


How is that relevant? Whether or not employees unionize and how they do so is up to them to decide. It still should be illegal for Amazon to interfere in that process in any way.

If employees don't agree on stuff to the point there's a 50-50 divide, then they aren't actually united. There is no union. That's fine, as long as Amazon accepts whatever result. It's also totally possible that 99% want to unionize so they can apply maximum leverage on Amazon and extract better pay and benefits out of them.


> How is that relevant?

The minority doesn't get a choice. There's a big difference between a choice and a vote.


A fair chunk of southern and western US consists of "right-to-work" states, in which one cannot be compelled to join a union as a condition of employment.


They're still stuck with the union contract. Even if they join the union, a vote on the contract is not the same as a choice.

If union contracts only applied to people who voluntarily joined the union, then it might be fair.


Okay. Amazon still has no say in that.


If 51% vote against unionization, what about the other 49%?


If it works for the president of the United States...


Make it an open shop, and they can negotiate individually.




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