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I ask every amazon delivery person that comes to my house how they like working for amazon, I've not got one single negative remark! Amazon delivers on time mostly and even through weather. USPS on the other hand which has multiple unions, don't delivery if there's a dusting of snow on my drive even though their motto says that doesn't stop them... I've also asked many usps employee's what they think of their job, and overwhelmingly they are bad reviews... ?_? I am curious the outcome of a unionized amazon will be, but I sure hope there's a competitor that can swoop in and still deliver to me in a timely fashion

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Alternative interpretation: unionized employees feel more secure in their job and therefore will be more honest when random people ask them about it. Or maybe they didn't even know where to start. The only people I've ever heard have no complaints about their job were people who had so many complaints that they put on an easy-going front to avoid dumping their problems on someone who's trying to make small talk.

It's like when you're teaching and the students don't understand a thing you said, they'll have no questions. It's always the kids who understood 75% of what you said who has a question. One of the goals of every liberation movement (labor, feminism, racial justice, etc.) is making people aware of their shared struggle and it's causes. The Teamsters are far from radical but the fact that things can even be negotiated at all has a way of making people aware that decisions of management are not forces of nature.

I've never once told a customer at any job that I worked at that I dislike my job because while I didn't like my job, I needed my job and didn't want anything to put that in jeopardy, like my boss finding out I told someone I don't like my job.

Why would those workers have any incentive to tell you the truth? Esp. since you were probably recording them with a doorbell surveillance device owned by their employer as you asked ...

You've got to be a paid shill or blissfully ignoring.

If you were making a low wage and easily replaceable would you bitch about your job to random people who asked you if you liked it or smile and say its great?

I imagine you'd find something similar if you asked Uber drivers about job satisfaction. Wouldn't want to get dinged.

The people doing deliveries aren't the ones working in the warehouses (which are unionizing). Most of the delivery drivers work for third party contractors.

If the warehouse workers were happy with the status quo, why would they be trying to unionize in the first place?

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