TIME: How Amazon Crushed the Union Movement

[Omaha Steve]

http://business.time.com/2014/01/16/how-amazon-crushed-the-union-movement/

By Verne Kopytoff Jan. 16, 2014

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Amazon.com, like many big businesses, isn’t a fan of labor unions. In contract negotiations, organized workers demand higher wages, layoffs by seniority and sometimes threaten to strike. Amazon has successfully fended off U.S. labor unions since its founding in 1994. On Wednesday, it did once again.

A small group of maintenance and repair technicians at an Amazon warehouse in Middletown, Del., voted 21-6 against joining the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. The results marked a major victory for Amazon, which risked organized labor gaining a toehold within its operations and using it to recruit tens of thousands more fulfillment center workers across the country.

“The workers at Amazon faced intense pressure from managers and anti-union consultants hired to suppress this organizing drive,” John Carr, a spokesperson for the union, wrote in an e-mail. “We responded when these workers initially reached out to us, and we’ll continue to work with them to pursue the collective bargaining rights they’re entitled to under federal labor law.”

Last month, group members made up of electricians and machinists filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to organize the union. It set off a major lobbying campaign by both sides.

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[TreasonousBastard]

1. Can't say anything bad about Amazon around here...

Wal-mart's the only bad guy we're allowed to dis.

[Teamster Jeff]

2. President "comfortable shoes" likes Amazon just fine....Our low wage future not a problem