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“I’m an extremely progressive liberal and the best kind,” said Mr. Doeblin, 53. “I’ve been able to keep a community bookstore alive in this neighborhood, and I don’t let ideology get in my way.”
And for that, customers in this liberal stronghold have unabashedly (until quite recently) sung his praises. To many, he is a lanky warrior for the written word, celebrated for creating and sustaining an intellectual haven in the neighborhood for nearly two decades.
At least that’s how things stood until last month, when his workers voted to unionize. On June 24, just hours after the vote, Mr. Doeblin announced in an email to staff members that he had fired two employees for joining the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. By June 26, he had fired three more.
Mr. Doeblin said four of the dismissed employees were managers who were ineligible to take part in the vote and who had “undermined” his business by bringing in the union. (The employees countered that they were supervisors in name only.) He fired the fifth worker after accusing her of eavesdropping.
This brings to mind Amazon.com. Founder Jeff Bezos donates mostly to Democrats, and early investor Nick Hanauer is a big time progressive. But Amazon has fought unionization with just as much tenacity as Wal-Mart.
As a global powerhouse that employs 100,000 people around the world, Amazon has long opposed unions. Over the last decade it has successfully obstructed workers' efforts to unionize in the United States, even as it has weathered criticism over working conditions and class-action lawsuits about pay.
Look out for yourself first. I see nothing wrong with that. Not all extremely progressive liberals believe in unions. ugh defending liberals, bath time for me again.
This brings to mind Amazon.com. Founder Jeff Bezos donates mostly to Democrats, and early investor Nick Hanauer is a big time progressive. But Amazon has fought unionization with just as much tenacity as Wal-Mart.
So where are all the anti-Amazon threads on this forum? I've seen a couple of mentions of Amazon, usually in a bash Walmart thread, but for some reason I never seem to see a huge backlash against them. Is it because they're on the Internet, and therefore "cool"? Or maybe it's because their shoppers aren't able to be photographed dressing their fat bodies in unflattering clothes?
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This brings to mind Amazon.com. Founder Jeff Bezos donates mostly to Democrats, and early investor Nick Hanauer is a big time progressive. But Amazon has fought unionization with just as much tenacity as Wal-Mart.
So where are all the anti-Amazon threads on this forum? I've seen a couple of mentions of Amazon, usually in a bash Walmart thread, but for some reason I never seem to see a huge backlash against them. Is it because they're on the Internet, and therefore "cool"? Or maybe it's because their shoppers aren't able to be photographed dressing their fat bodies in unflattering clothes?
Amazon is just the Walmart of the internet. The only difference is that Jeff Bezos has been crafty enough to donate to pay of Democrats and thus avoid all the bad publicity that WalMart has reaped.
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