Amazon Takes On Bernie Sanders Over Who's More Progressive
Senator Bernie Sanders will travel to Alabama this week to show support for Amazon warehouse workers looking to unionize. Ahead of the senator's visit, the company opted to blast the Vermont politician — and frequent Amazon critic — defending its company values but also take a swipe at him over the $15 minimum wage debate. In a tweet, executive Dave Clark said he often referred to Amazon as the "Bernie Sanders of employers" because of its progressive workplace. But, documents suggest otherwise.
A top Amazon executive lashed out at Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in a Twitter post on Wednesday, suggesting that the senator was all talk and little action when it came to actually putting progressive policies in place. The tech giant's senior vice president of worldwide operations, Dave Clark, took …
If employees actually had to pee in bottles, Amazon said, “nobody would work for us.” That’s a lie. In anticipation of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s scheduled …
Amazon’s PR team is beefing with a Wisconsin congressman about the company’s labor conditions, among them whether its workers pee in bottles. On Wednesday evening, Wisconsin representative Mark Pocan called out the tech behemoth for its well-documented labor abuses in a tweet: “Paying workers $15/hr …
Jeff Bezos declined to testify at the Senate Budget Committee hearing called by the Vermont independent and frequent Amazon critic. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will bring the high-stakes labor battle against Amazon to Washington on Wednesday, when a union-supporting worker will testify before the …
The new controversy centers on Amazon deleting the profiles of hundreds of thousands of entry-level warehouse employees. Last week, Amazon made changes to its internal online staff directory, deleting hundreds of thousands of entry-level warehouse workers’ profiles from a tool that allows any …
Learn More About the Unionization Efforts by Amazon Workers
In what some call a big test of the U.S. labor movement, Amazon's warehouse workers in Alabama are deciding whether they want to form a union. The company has made its position on this issue abundantly clear, putting forth union-busting efforts to sway votes. Workers started casting their ballots on Feb. 8 and can do so until March 29. Learn more on why workers are petitioning for a union and the impact it could have on one of the world's biggest tech companies.
