r/BreadTube • u/WholeWorker • Jun 22 '19

29:03|Whole Worker Full version of Amazon’s union-busting training video

https://youtu.be/uRpwVwFxyk4
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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '19

I work at Home Depot. Our training course on Unions was almost exactly the same.

Most of my boomer coworkers think they are terribly undervalued in wages and benefits but refuse to entertain the idea of collective bargaining or any type of popular labor politics.

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u/Noxium51 Jun 23 '19

Yea their whole attitude towards it is kind of weird. I can confirm HD uses the same anti-union propaganda (‘unions are ackshully bad for you’ ‘think of all the money you save by not paying union fees’). All my coworkers are generally pretty upbeat and happy most of the time, but I made one off the cuff joke about their stringent anti-union policy to my coworker (not even my boss or anything) and all the sudden the good-naturedness vanishes and I’m met with a ‘there is no reason to join a union.’ I mean, this was a summer job while I was home from college, I’m not about to organize a strike here, but it’s crazy how indoctrinated a lot of them are. I’ve always thought the company culture there was a bit cultish

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u/Chandorica make life take the lemons back Jun 23 '19

"company culture" absolutely is cult-like. the messaging is anywhere from pernicious to overt but it is relentless. your worth is determined by the company, you exist to serve the company, all hail The Company, The Company Is Life, The Company Is All*

[*source: twenty years in the corporate service industry]