Das Hamburger Dokumentationzentrum Hannoverscher Bahnhof soll eine Hausgemeinschaft mit der Firma Wintershall Dea eingehen. Doch das stößt auf Widerstand bei einigen Opferverbänden. Das Mediationsverfahren dazu ist nun geplatzt.
Jun. 12—Logan Health nurses who sought to break ties with their union amid a contentious three-day labor strike have withdrawn their petition with the National Labor Relations Board. The informal anti-union group calling itself Nurses and Community Unite sought to hold a vote to decertify its affiliation with SEIU Healthcare 1199NW. During the walkout that started June 1, the group claimed .
“Working at an Amazon warehouse is no easy thing. The shifts are long. The pace is super-fast. You are constantly being watched and monitored. They seem to think you are just another machine.”
So testified Jennifer Bates before a US Senate Budget Committee hearing into income and wealth inequality on March 17. Less than a month later her co-workers at Amazon’s fulfilment centre in Bessemer, Alabama, voted 1,798 to 738 against allowing the Retail, Wholesale and Department Stores Union into their workplace to represent them.
That might seem a surprising outcome. But Bates’s testimony hinted at the odds of workers voting against the company’s wishes – which was heavily anti-union: