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“I personally didn’t see the need for a union,” he said. “If I was being treated differently, I may have voted differently.”
Brooks is one of almost 1,800 employees who handed Amazon a runaway victory in the company’s hardest-fought battle to keep unions out of its warehouses. The result announced last week, with 738 workers voting to form a union dealt a crushing blow to labor and Democrats when conditions appeared ripe for them to make advances.
For some workers at the warehouse, like Brooks, the minimum wage of $15 an hour is more than they made in previous jobs and provided a powerful incentive to side with the company. Amazon’s health insurance, which kicks in on the first day of employment, also encouraged loyalty, workers said.
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Amazon pushed back in its own tweet, writing, “You don’t really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you?”
“If that were true, nobody would work for us,” the account added at the time. “The truth is that we have over a million incredible employees around the world who are proud of what they do, and have great wages and health care from day one.”
1/2 You don’t really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you? If that were true, nobody would work for us. The truth is that we have over a million incredible employees around the world who are proud of what they do, and have great wages and health care from day one. Amazon News (@amazonnews) March 25, 2021
Demonstrators gather in University Heights to support Amazon workers amid union battle in Alabama
Demonstrators gather in University Heights to support Amazon workers amid union battle in Alabama
and last updated 2021-03-13 18:40:23-05
UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio â On Saturday, Our Revolution Ohio held a rally to support Amazon workers amid a union battle in Alabama.
Thousands of workers at an Amazon campus are deciding whether to form a union, a battle with the potential to pivot collective bargaining rights in areas where they have been scarcely accepted. Amazon has held mandatory sessions to tell workers a union would command dues when they already get the kind of compensation benefits, including health insurance, that unions negotiate, according to the Associated Press.