{"id":13784,"date":"2021-02-10T09:18:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T08:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=13784"},"modified":"2021-02-10T09:28:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T08:28:17","slug":"13784","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=13784","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-55927024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In December, state labour officials ruled the request had garnered enough support to warrant an election &#8211; the first such vote Amazon has faced in the US since 2014. Ballots were mailed this week.<\/p>\n<p>If the campaign succeeds, the Bessemer facility, which opened in March, would become the only unionised Amazon location in the US.<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;This election takes on enormous importance because Amazon is not just another company,&#8220; says Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), which is leading the effort. &#8222;This election transcends Bessemer. It&#8217;s really about how workers are going to be treated in the future.&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I agree with Appelbaum&#8217;s statement, of course. What is here actually more significant to me, however, is the omitted discussion of the implications of Amazon having today <em>no\u00a0<\/em>unionized location in the US, and in fact not having had a union representation election since 2014. Corporate US and UK media forever warn of potential future ways democracy may be endangered, implicitly accepting the reigning system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: In December, state labour officials ruled the request had garnered enough support to warrant an election &#8211; the first such vote Amazon has faced in the US since 2014. Ballots were mailed this week. If the campaign succeeds, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=13784\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}