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Rent's still due Monday.

Hypothetically let's say Amazon is found to be at fault, even if action is taken your still out of work. I consider myself fairly educated, and I still have no idea what remedies exist if Amazon was to close a warehouse due to unionization. For working class people who are more concerned about paying their bills, voting for a union sounds like a very risky proposition. There's a very good chance Amazon would find a legal trick to either lay off a significant numbers of their staff, or convert some workers to being tempts

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This sounds like fear mongering. How often do union votes result in closures?

One prominent example from recent memory:

"On November 2, 2017, Ricketts posted to both DNAinfo and the '-ist' network sites that both websites would immediately cease operations, a week after Gothamist writers voted to unionize with the Writers Guild of America, East. All content from all DNAinfo sites and all subsidiary sites were taken down. The next day, archives of the sites were returned to functionality. Ricketts's shutdown was criticized as being a mere act of retaliation after the two companies' workers had joined a union."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothamist#Shutdown

>How often do union votes result in closures?

Would you gamble your family eating on this ?

I still remember being a low wage worker, fear is apart of the job ! Most people can't even go a few weeks without a check, it's not like us where we can quit and take a few months to find a job which ideologically aligns with our views.

More fear mongering. Amazon's not going to set their cash on fire and close the center, they'll take it in the teeth and fight the union tooth and nail at ever step. FTR I'd have voted yes.

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Your sitting from an upper middle class position. Working class people don't want to risk missing a check.

Yeah, I would gamble on it if there were no examples of it happening.

Walmart shut down an entire section of it's business because a group successfully unionized.

anytime a walmart store votes to unionize. its usually stated to close due to some other preexisting reason. but there is a direct correlation between union vote and stores being shut down

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