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Blatant Hypocrisy: Amazon Demands In-Person Union Vote After Arguing Mail-In Ballots 'Raise Risk Of Fraud'

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In a Thursday filing with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the Seattle-based online retail giant formally requested that a group of Alabama warehouse trying to form a union be required to vote in person, rather than by mail, according to Bloomberg. The company also requested a postponement of the vote so the NLRB can reconsider its earlier ruling which gives workers the next two months to vote by mail.

A group of workers at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse filed paperwork in November for an election to decide whether to be represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, a rare step for workers at a company whose U.S. workforce isn’t unionized. The NLRB, which oversees union votes, earlier this month said the vote would be conducted by mail, citing standards set up during the pandemic to keep workers and staffers safe. -Bloomberg

Amazon objected to the NLRB's decision - saying they had 'unfairly dismissed the company's argument' that its facility is safer than the surrounding Jefferson County, which hit a 20% COVID-19 positive test rate earlier this month. The company argues that in-person voting would have "fully minimized any risk of transmission," and that the NLRB's decision on mail-in votes was "based on speculation and conjecture, and without ever balancing the purported risk of virus spread against the public policy that ‘strongly favors’ allowing employees to vote in person."

The world’s largest online retailer said that a mail election raised the risk of fraud and the coercion of workers. It also said the process would depress turnout, arguing that as many as 29% of its more than 5,800 employees eligible to vote wouldn’t do so or would return incorrectly completed ballots. -Bloomberg

The solution, according to Amazon? Hold the election in a heated tent in the facility's parking lot in conjunction with software designed to ensure social distancing. The NLRB says conditions are too dangerous for in-person voting, and that acquiescing to Amazon's demands might give workers the impression that government employees conducting the vote might be receiving inappropriate benefits from the company.

"The most important factors in my decision are the safety of all election participants and the enfranchisement of all voters," wrote the NLRB's acting regional director in the Board's decision, adding "Both of these factors weigh in favor of a mail ballot election."
SOURCE URL: https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/amazon-demands-person-union-vote-after-arguing-mail-ballots-raise-risk-fraud


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    Posted by Dobrien 3 years, 2 months ago
    Definition of Democrat:1: Blatent Hypocrites 2:a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue 3: a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings.
    BTW For my vaccine , due to concerns about COVID and social distancing. I am demanding they mail it to me and I will mail back a receipt that I took it.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 3 years, 2 months ago
    Well, well, well, hell's bells! Me dino LIVES in Jefferson County, which is a blue meanie splotch on a mostly red state.
    Bessemer is one of many "satellite cities" that surround Birmingham. Bessemer is the first city I moved to when I started my 21-year career as a state prison corrections officer back in 1982.
    Smoke stacks of Bessemer steel mills were belching thick columns of smoke when I first drove through it back around 1976. By 1982 all activity was dead with steel worker jobs sold out overseas. A lot of my prison co-workers were ex-steel workers in need of any work.
    This is the first I've heard of this Amazon warehouse story. Thought it was located in Birmingham. Perhaps another one is.
    I presently live in another Birmingham "satellite city" called Pleasant Grove (have lived in two others, Hoover and Hueytown) and I have always voted in person. Always.
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  • Posted by shellgardens 3 years, 2 months ago
    The world is about to change. Stay informed with a very good book. Start with Mass Awakening by Shoshi Herscu. All the giants are coming down including Amazon for crimes against humanity and treason. Their assets will be confiscated and distributed to WE THE PEOPLE. Please read something about GESARA which Trump started with EO 13958, Start with daily updates here: https://gesara.news/updates.html
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  • Posted by shellgardens 3 years, 2 months ago
    Thank God everyone is seeing the hypocrisy. That is exactly what Trump needed to show the masses. His presidency was a military sting operation, and a very successful one,don't you think? Watch this:
    https://rumble.com/vbd61j-the-timelin...
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    • Posted by $ rainman0720 3 years, 2 months ago
      What makes you think "...everyone is seeing the hypocrisy"? I agree, it's blatant hypocrisy and would almost be funny if not so enraging. But I doubt all that many people see it as a hypocritical stance, since there seems to be a "the ends justify the means" mentality that is far too prevalent in this country.
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      • Posted by shellgardens 3 years, 2 months ago
        This has to get much worse for truly everyone to see; however, this patriot "freedomforall" is doing his part to bring it to whomever follows this forum. Please send me some intel that helps. I'll start first. Let me share a video that maybe you can share with your network of friends who are brainwashed: https://www.bitchute.com/video/y7WneA...
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