Pro-union forces everywhere are celebrating how the workers at the Amazon Staten Island facility won a union vote in the face of overwhelming hostility from the company. Just today I received an email from Dissent magazine praising the vote, and I certainly will admit it is a great thing.
However...there’s always a however. The union does not yet have a contract. Amazon will challenge the vote and use all sorts of delaying tactics to block a contract. The Executive Director of the Lehigh Valley Labor Chapter recently said that sometimes the vote in favor of the union was the easy part. Getting the company to agree to a contract and bargain in good faith may be nearly impossible. I predict Amazon won’t make it easy.
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