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“I personally didn’t see the need for a union,” he said. “If I was being treated differently, I may have voted differently.”
Brooks is one of almost 1,800 employees who handed Amazon a runaway victory in the company’s hardest-fought battle to keep unions out of its warehouses. The result announced last week, with 738 workers voting to form a union dealt a crushing blow to labor and Democrats when conditions appeared ripe for them to make advances.
For some workers at the warehouse, like Brooks, the minimum wage of $15 an hour is more than they made in previous jobs and provided a powerful incentive to side with the company. Amazon’s health insurance, which kicks in on the first day of employment, also encouraged loyalty, workers said.
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