
World’s Most Powerful Tech Companies Celebrate Bessemer Union Loss
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bvzg7d/worlds-most-powerful-tech-companies-celebrate-bessemer-union-loss
As the U.S. labor movement processes the defeat of a high stakes unionization effort in Amazon's Bessemer, Alabama warehouse, the world's most powerful companies are taking a moment to celebrate, remake their case for a future without unions and more of the status quo—which is less pretty than the companies would like to admit. They're also flipping the narrative to say this is an empowering moment for workers.
On Friday, for example, Chamber of Progress, a new technology coalition that brands itself as "inclusive," sent out a press release that said Amazon employees' rejection of the union was a "progressive story," specifically an indicator of "worker satisfaction with wages, benefits, and working conditions—and that progressive goals are being achieved without unionization." The coalition's partners include Amazon, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instacart, and DoorDash.