[Newspoetry] [Fwd: Amazon Anti-Union Campaign - Workplace Issues Today (fwd)]

[Mike Lehman]

Interesting news to consider when making your next book purchase.
Mike

Dale Wertz wrote:
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> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:22:25 -0500
> From: ilrref at cornell.edu
> To: WIT-L at cornell.edu
> Subject: Workplace Issues Today
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> ***** WORKPLACE ISSUES TODAY *****
> M.P. Catherwood Library
> School of Industrial & Labor Relations
> Cornell University
> Wed. Nov. 29, 2000
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> AMAZON LAUNCHES ANTI-UNION CAMPAIGN.
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> The Communication Workers of America and  the United Food and Commercial
> Workers Union are stepping up the most aggressive high-tech organizing
> drive to date and Amazon.com is fighting them at every turn.  The on-line
> retailer is using the web to distribute anti-union messages to its workers
> and managers.  Union leaders are a little surprised by Amazon's
> aggressiveness but say they are prepared to win this campaign.  If the
> unions' organizing drives are successful, organized labor will have its
> first foothold in the growing tech sector.  See  "Amazon Fights Union
> Activity", at http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/29/technology/29AMAZ.html, by
> Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times on the Web,  Nov 29, 2000. ( TAM)
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