'Have You Filed A Complaint?': Lindsey Graham Questions Amazon Labor Union Leader About Practices

At a Senate Budget Committee hearing on Thursday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) spoke about unionizing.

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[tracypolselli]

I’m not sure what I think about this but Senator Graham thinking employees have any place but the front door to go for help is ridiculous. My Dad warned me years ago to never forget that HR works for the company/CEO/executives, not the employees,

[Chopper]

Paying union dues when you're not in a union is extortion

[tristeen]

Why are we electing these super rich people? They have no idea what it's like to be a regular American.

[stephenburgess]

Imagine pretending amazon didn’t retaliate against employees who file complains about working conditions. This is Amazon we’re talking aboutz

[transparentglazier]

Nothing more impressive then wearing a cap to a Senate hearing. That speaks volumes

[FilmFlam-]

I have yet to see a union actually help the people in the union… besides the teachers union that stood by a p3do teacher who actually assaulted people i know. They protected him when all the complaints arose. They only did something (paid leave) when he was physically caught with a student in the act.

[julesj]

Unions do not do anything for employees! Why pay dues when they do nothing?!

[Mid.nightrr]

I dont like or support unions, so i choose not to work for a union 🤷‍♂️

Wow whats so hard about that?

[patrickdavenport]

"It may hurt productivity..." There you have it. They're more concerned with you making them money than you being treated fairly.

[jonjoyk]

I’m sure bezos’ magazine will defend graham as ferociously as graham defends Amazon… sike

[tearl]

I never saw anything good that a union did other than support slackers, drunks and addicts that should have been fired as they did nothing but increase the work load on every other employee.

[tigerjonn]

That senator sounds more like a Lawyer representing Amazon...

[harrywhiteside]

I want to know why this guy is elected over and over he always is going to represent the big corporations

[jimmywarren]

No paying dues is building more job labor power to protect our jobs better then freaking temporary service

[stuff]

I want to make an individual.choice to stay at gm as an executive and not be outsourced. We all got slaughtered.

[redacted]

Why tf is he allowed to wear a hat? That's a rhetorical question, we all know why

[soldtobediers]

"Union Sundown"

Well, my shoes, they comes from Singapore
My flashlight's from Taiwan
My tablecloth's from Malayisia
My belt buckle's from the Amazon
You know, this shirt I wear comes from the Philippines
And the car I drive is a Chevrolet
It was put together down in Argentina
By a guy making thirty cents a day.

Well, it's sundown on the union
And what's made in the USA
Sure was a good idea
'Til greed got in the way.

Well, this silk dress is from Hong Kong
And the pearls are from Japan
Well, the dog collar's from India
And the flower pot's from Pakistan
All the furniture it said "Made in Brazil"
Where a woman, she slaved for sure
Bringing home thirty cents a day to a family of twelve
You know, that's a lot of money to her.

Well, it's sundown on the union
And what's made in the USA
Sure was a good idea
'Til greed got in the way.

Well, you know, lots of people complaining that there is no work
I say, "Why you say that for
When nothing you got is US made ?"
They don't make nothing here no more
You know, capitalism is above the law
It say, "it don't count 'less it sells"
When it costs too much to build it at home
You just build it cheaper someplace else.

Well, it's sundown on the union
And what's made in the USA
Sure was a good idea
'Til greed got in the way.
Well, the job that you used to have
They gave it to somebody down in El Salvador
The unions are big business, friend
And they're going out like a dinosaur
They used to grow food in Kansas
Now they want to grow it on the moon and eat it raw
I can see the day coming when even your home garden
Is gonna be against the law.

Well, it's sundown on the union
And what's made in the USA
Sure was a good idea
'Til greed got in the way.

Democracy don't rule the world
You'd better get that in your head
This world is ruled by violence
But I guess that's better left unsaid
From Broadway to the Milky Way
That's a lot of territory indeed
And a man's gonna do what he has to do
When he's got a hungry mouth to feed.

Well, it's sundown on the union
And what's made in the USA
Sure was a good idea
'Til greed got in the way.

~Bob Dylan song
album: "Infidels" (1983)

[ubercoo]

When people have to work for the bottom percentage of cost of living with minimal health coverage and working difficult labor 8-10 or more hours a day & using the bathroom in bottles for said productivity. Maybe it's time to start saying, screw productivity. It's time to start caring about the people who take care of your 2.99 desires. As for the Act, maybe it's time to our elected officials to actually help & accommodate laws. That's what the comeback to Lindsey Graham should have been. I like the idea of unions being paid by those who support them as I don't believe in such an over reach equal to unfair treatment by the employer. Better find some rich friends.

[danieldumas]

Did that little pricq just referenced BOIENG in his argument?!? It's time to adjust His Medication!!!

[maxs]

tell the "people" dude to take his damn hat off. it's disrespectful at least