Amazon Anti Union propaganda

Legit had someone from my last job start going on a break room tirade about how "those damn unions just want your money" but strangely had no rebuttal when asked why giving them 2% of your paycheck is a bad thing when they negotiated your RAISE to be 15% and your health benefits add up to an additional savings of around 20%.

I'm SO SORRY you're getting extra money and healthcare rather than the NOTHING you had before.

Nowadays I like to print up cards with unionizing information on them, facts vs myths, links to read up more, anti-union tactics, links to join unions, links to find HELP setting up a union, and basically anything I could cram into a business card. Now I leave about 10 of them any time I go into a non union store.

Given how previous management has reacted to "someone" leaving these in the break room, I'm sure I've caused a few sleepless nights.

My union dues last pay? 30 dollars. My union just got the government of Ontario, the shitbag conservatives, who tried to illegally withhold raises from us, and won. My union guarantees I get a set wage because they bargain for it.

Hasn't Amazon been caught deducting pay arbitrarily from delivery drivers?

In fact, given a lot of them seem to be able to be terminated at a moment's notice, so no guarantees of pay there either. And work rules? What?

Oh and talking to someone paid by the company about your grievances Vs someone independent seems like a worse alternative than the final bubble.

Man, these guys really suck at propaganda

1. The amount paid for dues is greatly exceeded by the benefits of having a union.

2. You ARE guaranteed pay, benefits, and rules because you have a contract with the employer that covers those things.

3. Are these morons suggesting that the union will take over for management?

Boss: kids your age are so incredibly arrogant. You think you deserve the world.

Me: we are the same age.

Boss: huh

This actually happened.

Is union life for you?

It depends. Probably yes, unless your employer pulls shit like this, in which case you should have joined yesterday

The fact that they have it on this blatant of a propaganda poster means that unions work.

And going through union for what you need is much more effective and quicker than letting a supervisor/manager drag their feet and kick the ball around, and that's what makes union dues worth it.

"Dues deducted from paycheck" and "typically must go through union instead of your supervisor or manager" are true. At the same time, they're minor inconveniences compared to what a bad employer does to you.

Typically must go through union instead of your supervisor or manager

Major plus in my book.

No guarantees on pay, benefits or work rules.>

Union job in an at-will state: well-defined step-based just cause system for disciplinary action.

Non-union job in an at-will state: Your boss doesn't like a mole on your face, "bad culture fit".

"Get informed"

Bold of you to tell people to do something that dangerous, Amazon.

I’m from France where unions are kinda everywhere and workers rights well protected : what the hell is this ? Is it real ?

Wait so..having to go through your supervisor and manager is listed as a plus?????? america or not, aint noone likes going through that, usually

The "effective due" is probably even negative because the extra money they'll fight for will be more than the due.

There's no guarantee you will get more money! Get the same money or less guaranteed instead!

Always love it when the people in charge know something is bad for THEM but good for US and they just throw a tasteful graphic spouting some bullshit on a page to change minds. They did this in Columbus about Issue 1 like a month ago, saying how upping the Majority Vote to 60% for state bills was just a good thing, even though it was just to prepare for issue 1 in November to repeal backwards ass Abortion Laws. It was obvious too since it was like all the pamphlet talked about

go through union instead of your supervisor or manager

So they’re threatening workers with a good time? Interesting strategy.

Why sleep in cotton sheets on a spring mattress for $1 in dues when we can offer this manure-soaked bed of straw for only $5 in wage theft?

If you want to join a union: https://join-a-union.github.io/

Very Infuriating.

I sharpened the QR code. It reads:

http://www.unpackjfk8.com

Very surprised they didn't put ?campaign=qr, /qr or other such crap in it to measure its effectiveness as opposed to the printed URL.

(Saved you a click: domain is on sale, not used after 2022. Archive)

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Wait... are they saying that I could have sent my employees to the Union instead of endless discussions about next year's pto distribution? Could you not have said that sooner?!

Should be illegal. Vote for pro union protections people!

Disgusting.

Ask! (Whether borderline slavery is for you)

Given how big a shitshow Amazon is, both in fulfillment and corporate, I'm shocked that they weren't the first tech company to fully unionise.

Well, I say that knowing that there are lots of people that are extremely anti-union, even those that have suffered due to RTO/RTT, or Amazon's infamous PIP culture.

And I say this knowing that Amazon workers could happily form a union with 250k workers, and Amazon would happily fire them without a thought, even if it actively harmed them.

https://www.levernews.com/amazon-gets-huge-contract-despite-bidens-union-pledge/

FYI

Amazon on their way to get dogpiled in the media again.

Surprised this brazenly says to vote no. Usually telling people how to vote is the line they dance around with all the negative "facts"

dues were paying a couple lawyers to make sure company followed the law and own rules. mgmt is usually jealous of union pay. except upper mgmt(profit sharing) typically union will give better advice in any disputes.

I easily can imagine someone facing a wall and pissing in a bottle while looking at this poster.

In a world were people will gladly vote to put in position of power the same guy that trampled on them, it is not that surprising that people will root for the company that is drying them out to discard them faster.

Sadly.

This is not mildly infuriating, this is extremely infuriating

Typical Amazon... I hope American workers are smarter than this and don't fall for it.

Lol how to convince someone exactly the opposite of what you want

Wait wait, you PAY your unions in the US??? I thought I already heard all

No guarantees on pay, benefits, or work rules

Uuuhhhhhhh, isn't that the current state and literally what unions are for? Setting guarantees for all that shit?

It’s not much of an argument but it’s honest work some designer had to stick together.

I mean, it's not many companies that don't try to put up a fight against this. I don't think this is anything particularly unusual. Why is this infuriating? Would you expect them to not do this? That would be /mildlyshocking

There are some serious issues with unions. For instance sometimes workers are tricked into signing papers that allow the union to have control over the worker. I'm not condoning Amazon but to say Unions aren't always great.

As always you should make up your own mind