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They were forced to stay at work as a tornado bore down. Would a union have saved them? | Hamilton Nolan
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Those who died in an Amazon warehouse in Illinois and a Kentucky candle factory were sacrificed to the alter of profit

It does this because it knows that unions might eventually require Amazon to treat its workers as employees, and as humans, rather than as automatons who exist to fill tiny interchangeable roles in Amazon’s logistical operations. A union might, for example, endanger Amazon’s two-day delivery process, by requiring a warehouse to momentarily shut down when a deadly tornado is approaching. That simply won’t do.

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