<story><title>Union&apos;s evidence in Amazon vote &apos;could be grounds for overturning election&apos;</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-labor-board-says-evidence-presented-by-union-amazon-vote-could-be-grounds-2021-04-28/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dannyw</author><text>Amazon is offering competitive wages (especially for Albama&amp;#x27;s cost of living), and benefits from day one.&lt;p&gt;Maybe a majority of the workers there prefer the status quo?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sammorrowdrums</author><text>I would be willing to listen to that line of argument, but having seen the Amazon manager training videos, the doitwithoutdues.com site, the countless other articles, evidence and anecdotes about Amazon&amp;#x27;s particularly aggressive forms of trying to prevent unionisation, the twitter ambassadors tweeting the official talking points etc.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think we can rule out the possibility we don&amp;#x27;t actually know what the employees truly think because they&amp;#x27;re in the middle of an all out propaganda war.&lt;p&gt;And I certainly don&amp;#x27;t think Amazon would put so much effort into fighting this if their employee treatment, benefits and compensation and general employer track record made employees genuinely not even consider the Union option.&lt;p&gt;As an outsider, it just feels like watching media reporting a war. I don&amp;#x27;t trust it due to propaganda and clearly opposing biases at play between the interested parties.</text></comment>
<story><title>Union&apos;s evidence in Amazon vote &apos;could be grounds for overturning election&apos;</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-labor-board-says-evidence-presented-by-union-amazon-vote-could-be-grounds-2021-04-28/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dannyw</author><text>Amazon is offering competitive wages (especially for Albama&amp;#x27;s cost of living), and benefits from day one.&lt;p&gt;Maybe a majority of the workers there prefer the status quo?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MomoXenosaga</author><text>One analysis in a local newspaper was something that blew my mind: in the US your health insurance is tied to your employer?!. Just think about how absolutely insane that is. Your boss has life or death power over you and your loved ones.
Apparently that&amp;#x27;s how Amazon was able to threaten it&amp;#x27;s workers.</text></comment>