Amazon spent $14.2 million total on anti-union consulting in 2022, filings with the Department of Labor show.

Amazon Says It Doesn’t ‘Employ’ Drivers, But Records Show It Hired Firms to Prevent Them From Unionizing::Amazon spent $14.2 million total on anti-union consulting in 2022, filings with the Department of Labor show.

  • Double_A@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    231·
    1 year ago

    I kinda don’t like how unions are a regulated legal thing… Why are they not just a a private club, where people collectively agree to not take shit conditions anymore? Why can’t all independent contractors go on strike tomorrow?

    • quicksand@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      I agree. I don’t want to take power from the existing unions, but they should be able to exist in some less official capacity as well. 1st amendment says freedom of association, right?

      • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
        91·
        1 year ago

        That’s what they are trying to do, and why Amazon is paying multiple firms to fuck with them over it.

      • LukeMedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Unions are part of a free labor market, and any attempt to bust them is an attempt to prevent a free economy. Funny how corporations have convinced so many that’s it’s a bad thing