They can still challenge the results, but it looks like its over. 1798 against (1609 to get majority + 1).
It’s not over, it’s never over, but this was a loss and it does hurt.
And the neolib ghouls at the New York Times are absolutely preening themselves over it. Wait till they remember what unions were the compromise for :gui-better:
Yeah, but that was a boon for them- Amazon unionizing makes their one day dildo delivery more expensive.
Go ahead… ciriticize the one day dildo service. But… One day you might need it
This article has already morphed a lot since I made this comment, but its original phrasing of “Amazon Workers Defeat Union Drive” and what a “crushing blow” it is to organized labor is gross. No mention of the dropbox fuckery, no explanation of what it means to contest the results or why the union might do that. First several comments pinned by NYT were also about how corrupt unions are. Idk maybe I just have brainworms at this point but it feels like the exact same way they covered any primary that Bernie lost – unrestrained eagerness to paint the narrative that thing they want to lose (i.e. working people) was just utterly destroyed and has no hopes of recovery.
sorry bro the average american is either a pro-capitalist liberal who thinks the c-suite executives and the billionaires are the pinnacle of sophistication and class or is a pro-capitalist semi-automatic toting right wing gun nut who would use their guns to “fight against marxism”
It’s disappointing, but man the publicity for this and the on going action by other Amazon workers really has gotten the ball rolling. This definitely isn’t over.
Yeah, the drivers are way more consistent on organizing. Just check the AmazonDSPdriver subreddit.YeahYeah
They had a chance to potentially change the world, but gave it up in the face of corporate propaganda.
I get that a lot of the workers could’ve been scared of retaliation. Between some of the de-industrialization that’s hit small towns so hard, the pandemic, and Amazon credibly able to just move towns if they did unionize, I get that it would’ve been… scary to vote yes. People are so precarious now, what’s left in Bessemer? Driving for uber or working at walmart? No one is really watching out for them in Alabama or at the Federal level. I know people formed unions under worse circumstances, like the coal miners back in the 1900s, but in some ways things are even more precarious for workers now then they were then. There’s high technology and pinkertons aren’t out to literally crack skulls but there’s no community resiliance, like if Amazon shuddered the warehouse in response people wouldn’t have been able to survive off the limited retail jobs and/or community gardens and no one would show up to protect you from bankruptcy like they did during the '30s.
I dunno, kind of seems like people just don’t have hope or faith that anything can change - or worse, that change is possible but if anything changes it’ll only be worse. So the status quo is uncomfortable but even if we’re pissing in bottles, even if I get docked 1 hours pay for being late 5 minutes, even if we have no say in how the workplace is run and get no respect from management or ownership, at least it’s a stable-ish gig with some benefits if you can withstand the bullshit. I don’t know how to break through that, that those workers deserve so much more than just getting by and that if they team up anything is possible.
Just getting people to believe that change for the better is possible seems like such an insurmountable task, never mind that we have such a limited horizon of action before climate change fucks everything up.
My hope was that if they did succeed, they would show all the other facilities it was indeed possible - give everyone the opportunity to try it themselves. They couldn’t close every single facility. But yeah, the fear is real, and retaliation would definitely be a possibility. It’s just so goddamn frustrating to watch capital win AGAIN.
