- Audio from an anti-union meeting at Amazon's Staten Island JFK8 warehouse was published by Vice.
- A union avoidance consultant told workers if they unionize, negotiations could start at minimum wage.
- Workers at JFK8 are due to vote in a union election next month.
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A union avoidance consultant told workers that if they unionize, negotiations with Amazon could start as low as minimum wage, according to audio obtained and published by Vice.
The audio was leaked from a mandatory anti-union meeting from inside Amazon's JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island on Wednesday.
In the audio, the consultant tells workers they could end up with "better, the same, or worse than you currently have" if they vote to unionize, as a union would have to enter into collective bargaining with Amazon management.
"There are no guarantees as to what would happen, right? So we can't make any promises that things will get better or stay the same, they could get worse. We can't promise what's going to happen, Amazon can't promise you they're going to walk into negotiations and the negotiations will start from the same. They could start from minimum wage, for instance," the consultant says in the recording.
"I'm not saying that that would...
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