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Fortunely crushing unions is not a legal in many countries.

As for everyone that gives money to Amazon, and praises their FOSS offerings, this is what evil companies do in practice.




> Fortunely crushing unions is not a legal in many countries.

Unfortunately, some companies like Amazon seems to simply include "break labor laws" on their balance statements in the end of the year, as they keep breaking the laws in order to save short-term costs.


That only works as long as no one reports them to the respective goverment departments.


It works great if the departments don't have a lot of power to stop it. Even if Amazon gets hit with a fine for anti-union behavior, it would be a pittance to their budget, and almost certainly come too late.


Depends on the country.


And if you've grown so big that there will be one or two reports every month, make sure you lobby the right people in the government departments.


Not all countries have the same corruption level.




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