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Modern labor unions in the United States can trace their origins to the 19 th century and started gaining footholds in "With the vote against third-party many major corporations almost a century ago. For example, representation, our employees have Boeing signed its first contract with a labor unionin its first labor contract in 1941. Today, unions, at at made it clear that they prefer a those and many other "old-line" businesses still On the other hand, many newer businesses have sucdirect connection with Amazon." cessfully avoided unionization among their employees. Their arguments against unions include the following: MARY OSAKO, AMAZON SPOKESPERSON Unions constantly push for higher wages and employees remain nonunionized, and the UFCW still faces an - uphill fight. competitiveness. Unions usually want businesses to retain and reward workers based on seniority rather than performance. Unions aggressively fight job cuts and employee layofs. workers at Starbucks get benefits, for example, and the firm Unions have the ability to strike, potentially crippling a offers many opportunities for advancement. Still, the Industria businessforanextendedperiodoftime.interestamongStarbucksemployees.ThefirmrecentlycreatedWorkersoftheWorldunioncontinuestoexploreunionization Unions push for highly restrictive work rules, limiting a policy that its workers could actually wear a button supporta firm's flexibility to reassign workers to other jobs or ing the union but a limit of a single badge less than one inch change the scope of a worker's job. in diameter was imposed. The union filed a legal claim age stich was usheld in court. consistently to thwart efforts to unionize their employ- have also tried to unionize workers at Amazon. Recently, for Walmart workers complain about low wages, poor - for a union vote at an Amazon facility. While the majority of tts, a lack of full-time jobs, and erratic and unpre- workers ended up voting against unionization, the mere fact e work schedules. For its part, Walmart warns that that they managed to secure the election was seen by the ration could mean the end of employee perks such union's leaders as at least a minor victory. 2 vacation and quarterly bonuses), The United Food nmercial Workers Union has made Walmart its major THINK IT OVER ound and has won several small battles. The union had success fighting Walmart in the courts based on 1. Under what employment circumstances might you be interested in joining a union? ituations in which the retailer has crossed legal lines to avoid unionization. But still, most of Walmart's 2. If you were a manager trying to convince your employees not to form a union what might you say to them