• Mirshe@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Alternately, they can hold elections and still make them corrupt by holding them at the most inconvenient times for everyone except the people they want. “Our election is a voice vote, the week before Thanksgiving, at 2PM in a conference room in town 50 miles away” sorta stuff.

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      11 months ago

      That’s exactly what they did for the contract ratification and the strike vote, the only two votes they’ve ever communicated to us about.

      They have four stores in a 120km radius across three different towns all going to one conference center, where voting is only open for a few hours during regular work times. Nobody is allowed to take time off work to go vote, not to mention that everyone is paid so poorly most don’t have car and therefore no way to get there. There’s a token short bus that goes between the towns, twice a day on weekdays only.

      The only two votes they actually communicated about were clearly designed to reduce voter turnout.

      UFCW is corrupt.