My union dues are 1/52 of my yearly pay. I make $25.77 an hour in an entry level job with no education requirements. Minimum wage here is $16.55 an hour.
Well you may be making 50k before taxes, but you're paying like a thousand dollars a year in union dues! You could instead be making 33k with no union dues, and a smaller tax burden. Think of how much you could buy with that extra thousand dollars!
On a side note are you hiring, and how far are you from Wichita, Kansas? I don't mind a commute
Amazon probably outsourcing to a PR that specializes in union busting.
But the PR firm that has little technical expertise - they just know they need bots to do some astroturfing.
So the PR firm outsources to an IT consulting firm.
But the IT consulting firm only bids on contracts, they don't do the actual work, so they find a subcontractor.
The subcontractor may hire subcontractors. Continue this step for however many iterations the value of the contract will allow.
Eventually the subcontractor hires a gig worker or an underpaid staffer to do the minimal amount of work possible.
The gig worker avoids as much effort as possible, because they're paid by volume rather than time.
At this point the requirements may or may not be fulfilled, but the admins of each org are satisfied, so they move on to the next contract without verifying the work.
Edit: I wrote this facetiously, but u/SpaceNoodle found a news article suggesting at least some of these accounts are legit, as backed up by a Belling Cat investigation.
