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Comment by fourseventy | Hacker News Reader

Nobody is being forced to do anything. It's at will employment. If the employees don't want to work in the office then they can find work elsewhere.

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Free choice in the land of the free!

"How Amazon Crushes Unions" - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/technology/amazon-unions-...

"Amazon intensifies 'severe' effort to discourage first-ever US warehouse union" - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/feb/03/amazon-in...

"Corporations like Amazon pay big bucks for "union avoidance" — and it all happens in the dark" - https://www.salon.com/2021/06/24/corporations-like-amazon-pa...

"Amazon calls cops, fires workers in attempts to stop unionization nationwide" - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/13/amazon-...

Just you, alone, vs the trillion dollar company, its lobbyists, its influence over local and federal government, its PR machine, its full-time, well-funded teams of people who are against you, and its constant fight to stop you combining forces with other individuals to fight back.

> If the employees don't want to work in the office then they can find work elsewhere.

Which is exactly what I'm doing and advocating for others to do.

Or they could organize and negotiate their own terms with Amazon.

Could you imagine the colors bezos would turn if they unionized in response to this? I would buy that pay per view.

I really hope they do! I bet in 100 years we will look back at what is happening now in a similar way as we look back at 19th century capitalism and people fighting for a 40-hour week.

The person you were replying to is directly advocating for finding work elsewhere?

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