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Amazon has literally hired Pinkertons to surveil workers, and they have been accused of retaliatory firings, etc. There's no outlandish or fanciful conspiracy here. Amazon are publicly known to be vehemently anti-union, and executives do encourage local management teams to try to curb union activity as much as possible, and appear to have fired local management at another facility for failing to do so, so the existence of this imperative seems pretty solid: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/technology/amazon-fires-m...

What's likely to have happened is that a person in local management wanted to stop union solicitation, so they called the cops with little regard for whether it was actually legitimate or not, in the hope that the cops might at least recommend the organizer move their activity to a less "aggravating" (i.e., less effective) location.




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