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Supporters of Amazon employees on February 20 in New York: Online retailer absolutely wants to prevent employee representation in Alabama
Photo: KENA BETANCUR / AFP
The word did not appear in Joe Biden's most recent video message, and yet everyone knew who was meant: Amazon.
America's workers would be free to choose to join a union the right, the US president said in a movies on the messaging service Twitter - and
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without intimidation and threats by the employer
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.
Biden gets involved in a hot labor dispute: In Alabama, the employees of an Amazon company are currently voting on the establishment of an employee representation in the group.
The online retailer absolutely wants to prevent this.
That a US president put so clearly on the side of the unions, is
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quite unique in American history
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the historian Erik Loomis of the University of Rhode Iceland who said
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Washington Post
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.
Not even Franklin D. Roosevelt, the founder of the New Deal for more social justice, ventured that far.
The party left is likely to see Biden's statement as a consolation.
After all, he has just dropped a prestige progressive project without much ado: the increase in the national minimum wage to $ 15 an hour.
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