Yves here. This post provides an in-depth account of how Amazon has been using every trick it can to defeat the union vote that just started for its Bessemer, Alabama warehouse workers. I assume readers know that Amazon warehouses are modern-day sweatshops, with workers intensively monitored for the speed of execution of their tasks. For instance, from the New York Post, hardly a left-leaning publication: Maureen Donnelly took a job with Amazon when the retail goliath opened a fulfillment center on Staten Island in September 2018. The 46-year-old Staten Islander quit after just one month. Last week, more than 100 workers and their supporters gathered outside the same 855,000-square-foot packing plant to protest working conditions and spotlight newly released data showing the rate of worker injury there was three times higher than the national average for similar warehouse work….