{"id":3444,"date":"2021-04-17T18:43:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T23:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=3444"},"modified":"2021-04-17T18:43:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T23:43:20","slug":"look-for-the-union-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2021\/04\/17\/look-for-the-union-label\/","title":{"rendered":"Look For The Union Label"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>And take your money elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I meant to write a bit about this earlier, but I forgot.  Instead of editing the previous post, I&#8217;ll give this its own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You might have heard or seen a brief mention that the effort to unionize a plant in Alabamastan <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/preliminary-results-lean-amazon-union-vote-count\/story?id=76878359\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">failed<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/amazon-crushed-union-threat-alabama_n_60746e5ce4b01e304234929d\">couple<\/a> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/money\/companies\/how-amazon-fought-the-union-drive-in-alabama\/ar-BB1fJI4L\" target=\"_blank\">of stories<\/a> about how Amazon &#8220;won,&#8221; but very little good analysis, in my opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also marvel at the deafening silence from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/section\/news\" target=\"_blank\">Vice News<\/a>.  Not sure if that&#8217;s as embarrassing as <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Katie_Hill_(politician)\" target=\"_blank\">Katie Hill<\/a>, but it&#8217;s close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You don&#8217;t like how Amazon treats its workers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t buy from them.  I try to avoid that, myself.  Sometimes I&#8217;ll even go out of my way to avoid giving them money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s really not that difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And take your money elsewhere. I meant to write a bit about this earlier, but I forgot. Instead of editing the previous post, I&#8217;ll give this its own. You might have heard or seen a brief mention that the effort to unionize a plant in Alabamastan failed. A couple of stories about how Amazon &#8220;won,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scarred-brain-murmurings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}