Amazon Condemned GA Voting Law While Also Opposing Mail-In Ballots for own Staff in Union Vote
Corporate giant Amazon has criticized Georgia’s election laws, but has fought efforts by its employees to use mail-in balloting for a union vote.
Corporate giant Amazon, currently facing criticism for its policies that force its contractors and employees to go to the bathroom in bottles, has decided to focus its efforts on opposing Georgia’s election laws, which include integrity efforts to oversee mail-in balloting.
The problem?
Amazon itself opposed mail-in voting as part of a pending vote by some warehouse workers in Alabama to unionize.
Once again, corporate America wants one set of rules for its internal operations, and another for one of the most important parts of being an American -- having free, fair and honest elections.
Former Obama White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, now a public relations chief for Amazon, called Georgia’s new election law an effort to “disenfranchise black people and other minorities.”
If voter integrity issues, such as making sure that dead people do not vote and expanding early voting are attacks on voter rights, what should we call Amazon’s own voting policies?
“Amazon is attempting to force workers planning to unionize at an Alabama warehouse to vote in person rather than by mail as it fights off a landmark attempt by its staff to organize,” The Guardian reported in January.
Labor relations law firm Jackson Lewis said that mail-in voting favors employees over employers. Amazon opposed mail-in voting because it could help employees unionize and undoubtedly because it makes voter manipulation or intimidation more likely.
With mail-in voting, union reps (or in the case of elections, canvassers and paid organizers) can go to homes and show people who to vote for on their ballot.
With in-person voting, this is much more difficult.
Amazon does not want union reps going to people’s homes and being able to influence how they vote.
This, of course, is nothing new.
Recently, Coca-Cola and Major League Baseball came out against Georgia’s election reform efforts, which include strengthening photo ID requirements.
But Coca-Cola requires photo ID to enter its shareholder meetings and the MLB requires photo ID for picking up tickets ordered online and over the phone.
Woke companies are trying to appease far-left activists, but they actually like most of the policies being implemented in Georgia -- just now when it protects the votes of Georgia citizens.
Should Amazon keep its mouth shut? Should Georgia be allowed to protect its elections? Tell us what you think in the comments below!
