-- Nathan Newman
----- Original Message ----- From: <orders at amazon.com> To: <nathan at newman.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 8:21 AM Subject: Re: Your Feedback to Amazon.com
Thank you for writing back to us at Amazon.com.
As we've stated before, Amazon.com does not believe that unions would benefit its employees or its customers.
However, if our employees seek an election and vote for unionization, the company will of course respect and abide by their decision, and will comply with all relevant labor laws.
Rest assured that I have passed your message on to the appropriate individuals within our company.
Thank you again for taking the time to let us know how you feel about this issue.
Best Regards,
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>Date: Thu Nov 30 22:45:26 PST 2000
>Subject: Re: Your Feedback to Amazon.com
>To: <feedback at amazon.com>
>From: nathan at newman.org
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <feedback at amazon.com>
>>Amazon.com recognizes that its employees have the right to seek union
>>representation if they so choose. However, the company does not
>>believe that a union will benefit its employees or customers.
>
>Thank you for your letter back, but the basic point, it is not up to the
>management to have an opinion on what is best for the employees. It is
>there decision and any attempt to browbeat them and thereby threaten them
is
>an attack on their rights. You are free to put out leaflets explaining
your
>position, but any meetings between supervisors and employees to attack the
>union is inherently coercive.
>
>As well, as someone who supports unionism in general, your general attacks
>on unions as institutions offends me. So just as you may have an opinion
>about unions, I have an opinion (negative) about companies who fight
>unionism.
>
>And I will choose not to patronize companies that attack their workers
>efforts to unionize.
>
>Yours,
>
>Nathan Newman
>
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