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Update: A majority of workers have voted not to form a union at the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Bessemer, Alabama. The result of the NLRB's initial vote count was 1,798 votes against the union and 738 in favor. Hundreds of additional ballots were not counted because their authenticity was disputed. But the "no" side already has a majority of the 3,215 votes cast, making the issue moot.
Original story, April 8: A closely watched effort to unionize an Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama appears to be headed for defeat. With about half the votes counted, 1,100 workers have voted against forming a union, while only 463 voted in favor.
The National Labor Relations Board is counting the 3,215 votes that were cast by workers at the Bessemer facility. The union needs to win at least half the votes in order to become the official representative of the roughly 6,000 workers at the Bessemer facility. Counting has ended for the evening and is scheduled to resume at 8:30 am Central Time on Friday.
Also at The Washington Post, c|net, and Al Jazeera.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 11 2021, @04:31PM (1 child)
"What's smart for one person to do isn't necessarily smart for 10,000 people to do all at once."
Exactly. Something that's smart for one person would give that person a relative advantage compared to everyone else. If everyone did it then doing so would give no one a relative advantage.
This goes back to what I said about the minimum wage. It may be smart for one person to get paid more because it gives them a relative advantage in terms of their ability to pay for their expenses compared to their competition. But if you raise everyone's wages (the minimum wage) then no one gets a relative advantage and everyone is back to square one. Your wage went up but so did your competitors (other workers that are also competing for the goods and services you want to consume including rent). Everyone is back to square one.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 11 2021, @04:43PM
It can reasonably be said that raising one person's wage relative to someone else's gives that one person a relative advantage.
It's much more difficult to say that raising everyone's wages (the minimum wage) will give everyone an absolute advantage.