Amazon In Addition To Unionization (Amzn)

They're against it.

Like their Silicon Valley tech confreres 700 miles to the south, unionization is the rattling concluding affair that Amazon wants.
And similar Franklin Delano Roosevelt (he said modestly) I don't mean value world sector unions are an overall positive for the citizenry,* only equally to the private sector, lead hold at it.

H5N1 major slice from Gizmodo:

Amazon's Aggressive Anti-Union Tactics Revealed inwards Leaked 45-Minute Video

Amazon, the country’s second-largest employer, has thus far remained immune to whatsoever attempts past times U.S.A. workers to shape a union. With rumblings of employee arrangement at Whole Foods—which Amazon bought for $13.7 billion concluding year—a 45-minute union-busting grooming video produced past times the companionship was sent to Team Leaders of the grocery chain concluding week, according to sources amongst noesis of the store’s activities. Recordings of that video, obtained past times Gizmodo, render valuable insight into the company’s thinking in addition to tactics.

Each of the video’s half dozen sections, which the narrator states are “specifically designed to give you lot the tools that you lot demand for success when it comes to labor organizing,” take place inwards an animated simulacrum of a Fulfillment Center. The video’s narrators are clad inwards the reflective vests typical of the real-world setting. “We are non anti-union, only nosotros are non neutral either,” the video states, drawing a distinction that would probable locomote largely academic to potential organizers. To expound on what non-neutrality mightiness hold off like, the video adds inwards apparently linguistic communication (emphasis ours):

“We make non believe unions are inwards the best involvement of our customers, our shareholders, or most importantly, our associates. Our trouble organization model is built upon speed, innovation, in addition to client obsession—things that are by in addition to large non associated amongst union. When nosotros lose sight of those critical focus areas we jeopardize everyone’s undertaking security: yours, mine, in addition to the associates’.”

Amazon’s anti-union grooming video comes to calorie-free among an picture crisis for the company. Years of reporting on depression pay in addition to pitiful working atmospheric condition reached a fever pitch belatedly this summertime when Senator Bernie Sanders proposed legislation direct challenging the company’s reliance on social subsidy programs. Likewise, Amazon lost to a greater extent than than it gained inwards a charm offensive ploy that rewarded its warehouse ambassadors for tweeting squeamish things virtually the company—like how they are free to role facility restrooms in addition to are non slaves.

Gizmodo has opted to non issue the video itself inwards society to hold root anonymity.
Throughout, the video claims Amazon prefers a “direct management” construction where employees tin give the sack choose grievances to their bosses individually, rather than matrimony representation. However, a issue of warehouse workers lead hold expressed to Gizmodo inwards past times reporting that they believed voicing their concerns led to retaliatory scrutiny or firing. “[Amazon] preaches that they lead hold this open-door policy in addition to thus when you lot examine to instruct through that opened upwardly door, instead of beingness allowed in, you lot are at in i trial laid up,” a erstwhile Fulfillment Center worker inwards Indiana told Gizmodo. “You’re somebody that talks in addition to you’re somebody they’re gonna absolutely brand the undertaking equally hard equally humanly possible for.” Another Floridian Fulfillment Center worker told Gizmodo he sent complaints of depression pay to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s public-facing electronic mail address (jeff@amazon.com) in addition to claims management was “harassing me since I sent that email.” He said he was terminated before long afterward....MUCH MORE

*American Presidency Project:
112 - Letter on the Resolution of Federation of Federal Employees Against Strikes inwards Federal Service August 16, 1937

F.D.R. Warned Us About Public Sector Unions - NYTimes.com
Feb 18, 2011