Unions are overrated and it has become a dumb partisan issue where being staunchly pro-union all the time has become a litmus test of liberal wokeness. That is stupid. Honestly if Amazon is paying better than anywhere else in the rural community then why would they rock the boat by unionizing? It’s not a big surprise at all. It would be easy enough for Amazon to decrease operations at that site in favor of other sites which can easily be guised as a business decision even if it is motivated by anti union animus. So that’s scary. Now you could say that it’d be worth it because the union can negotiate more breaks or whatever. But all a union does is let you NEGOTIATE with your employer without retaliation. It doesn’t require any particular outcome. And if the union did ask for more breaks or other conditions then it would seem logical that Amazon would demand to pay lower wages because of the decreased productivity. Maybe the workers would rather keep the status quo than open up Pandoras’s box.
To be clear, I completely support livable wages and comfortable jobs. But the incentives to make workers uncomfortable and pay as little in wages as possible are systemic problems. It’s really not clear to me why garnishing your wages to pay union dues just for the right to tell your boss what terms of employment you would like is the solution.