<story><title>Amazon instructs New York workers “don&apos;t sign” union cards</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/amazon-alb-1-anti-union-signage-alu-004207814.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>noisy_boy</author><text>&amp;gt; The ALU may ask you to sign an authorization card or share a QR code to fill out an online authorization card.
&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;This is a legally binding document&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ooh scary ... is the employment contract signed by Amazon&amp;#x27;s employees not legally binding? How is it Amazon&amp;#x27;s business what their grown-ass employees can or cannot sign?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; By signing a card or filling out an online authorization form, you are providing the ALU your personal information.&lt;p&gt;Like Amazon monitoring my spending habits?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; By signing a card or filling out an online authorization form, you are authorizing the ALU to speak on your behalf.&lt;p&gt;And thats terrible how?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The ALU is not part of Amazon and does not represent Amazon&lt;p&gt;Thats the whole point.</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon instructs New York workers “don&apos;t sign” union cards</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/amazon-alb-1-anti-union-signage-alu-004207814.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>photochemsyn</author><text>Realistically an Amazon-wide union is the only way Amazon workers are going to get decent wage increases.  If the USA is going to allow manufacturers to outsource the majority of well-paid (~$30&amp;#x2F;hr avg) manufacturing jobs to Mexico and China, without having any cross-border capital flow penalities (neoliberal globalism in a nutshell), then the major employers like Amazon and Walmart are going to have to double their wages.&lt;p&gt;Yes, that means less for the executives and shareholders.  They may have to sell some of their properties, oh dear.</text></comment>