2021/04/16

Jane McAlevey on Amazon’s Anti-Union PsyOps

“The employer in an anti-union campaign is running a psychological terror operation, so that no worker in that facility ever considers the question of a union again. Amazon was sending a message to its workers across the United States.”
– Labour organizer Jane McAlevey, on Bessemer, Alabama Amazon workers’ recent failed unionization bid—and how inept media coverage of the doomed campaign supported the company’s PR goals [quote edited]
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