Amazon Is Hiring Aggressive Firms to Bust Union Efforts
Members of the Workers Assembly Against Racism gathered across from Jeff Bezos-owned Whole Foods Market in Union Square South for a nationwide solidarity event with unionizing Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama.
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Since the start of the year, Amazon has subjected its almost 6,000 warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, to a relentless and aggressive anti-union campaign. Among other tactics, Amazon management has forced workers to attend multiple anti-union captive-audience meetings, which it has called âeducation sessionsâ; it has sent workers numerous anti-union text messages telling them to âvote noâ in the on-going mail-in National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election, which ends on March 29; and it has promoted a slick anti-union website and run polished anti-union ads on social media site Twitch. Management has also displayed anti-union posters around