workers at amazon's alabama warehouse are standing up to the retail giant more than 5 000 of them are voting this month the question whether they should join one of the oldest retail unions in america or not now in the past amazon has fought efforts to unionize its american facilities but today workers who are backing a union at amazon
The highest levels of the american government it is the biggest push for a union that amazon has faced this month workers at the retail giants alabama warehouse will decide if they want to unionize on monday pro union workers want the support of the us president himself joe biden he released this video message no anti-union propaganda without naming amazon he backed the rights of the workers to unionize it's not up to me to decide whether anyone should join a union but let me be even more clear
it's n●t up to an employer to decide that either the choice to join a union is up to the workers full stop full stop and there should be no intimidation no coercion no threats no anti-union propaganda that message was for amazon in recent weeks
the company has tried to block the voters by blocking an option to cast the votes by mail if the waters what to unionize the amazon facility in alabama will be the first warehouse union increasingly workers across america's tech joints are expressing their will to unionize at the beginning of this year more than 200 employees of google announced they had formed a union one of the first in an industry that has been hostile to organized labour reportedly the move by the workers was prompted by growing ethical concerns over the company's work and culture in recent years including the fact not all employees of google enjoyed the same rights the final trigger perhaps was the controversial departure of an artificial intelligence engineer the alphabet workers union now boasts of more than 800 members its members say they want to give a voice to every employee of google all that we're being told is here just implement the decision that was given to you and when we find that that's not fitting in with the values that we agreed to for the company we're told that we have to leave and we're at this point trying to make a firm organization that then will continuously fight for the values of the company so that um as each of these different big moments come up we can make sure that even if an individual gets pushed out for speaking up their campaign keeps going on after google a union at amazon could spread the efforts to unionize across big tech with the american president endorsing the creation of unions the tech giants may find it harder to ignore these demands
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