| They used to be a tool to help the working class in the US. My parents had good experience with their unions. Every interaction every person I know in my generation has had with them (CWA, UAW, teamsters, railway unions, etc, etc.) has been strongly negative. The Amazon workers should form a new union if they want representation. Cards from existing corrupt national unions are definitely a trap. Once enough people sign, they will swoop in to extract dues, bribe politicians on unrelated issues, and alternate between sabotaging Amazon's work environment and negotiating away whatever current benefits the workers get. People that are good at negotiating union politics will somehow become unfirable, and just stop bothering to do their jobs. If history repeats itself, the union reps will then work with Amaozn to create an underclass of ununionizable jobs and hire people at minimum wage to do the old $18/hr work, while the union cronies "supervise" for $25+/hr. |
They did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Labor_Union