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Amazon Workers Around The World Stand Up On Black Friday

December 6, 2022

Another annual ritual of capitalism has came and gone — Black Friday, the day following …

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Labor Notes 2022 — A Reason to be Hopeful

June 30, 2022

This year’s Labor Notes Conference in Chicago brought a record number of activists and rank …

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Billionaires in Space Won’t Save Our Planet

August 6, 2021

Billionaires like Bezos show us where their concern is – not on this planet with us. …

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Billionaires and Taxes – Winning at Their Own Game

June 18, 2021

Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck, accumulate little no wealth and pay taxes. But the big capitalists live in a different world.  As their wealth expands, their effective tax rates decline. …

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MacKenzie Scott Gives Away $2.7 Billion

June 18, 2021

MacKenzie Scott, former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is giving away $2.7 billion. But who generated that wealth? Why should it be up to rich people like her to decide what happens with that wealth? …

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Priceless Words from a Union Chief

May 8, 2021

Union leaders often act in the interests of companies rather than workers, as illustrated by the words of the head of the Alabama AFL-CIO. …

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The Loss in Alabama: What Does it Really Mean?

April 10, 2021

The Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama lost their unionization drive. This defeat must be viewed in the proper context in order to gain the understanding necessary for victory in the future. …

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Biden’s Support for Bessemer Workers is Paper Thin

March 11, 2021

Biden wants to benefit from the support of workers and unions – does he really support them? …

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Amazon Pulls Out All the Stops against Workers Organizing

March 4, 2021

Workers at Amazon’s Bessemer, AL fulfillment center are trying to organized a union. Amazon is doing everything it can to prevent that. …

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Amazon Big Boss Jeff Bezos Needs Us. We Don’t Need Him!

February 5, 2021

Amazon workers in Alabama are organizing to form a union, for good reasons. …

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Sixth Amazon Worker Dies from COVID-19

May 23, 2020

On April 9, George Leigh, a worker at Amazon’s DNY4 distribution center in Bethpage, New York, he died as a result of COVID-19. …

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What is Bezos Doing to Take One Trillion Dollars?

May 19, 2020

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s wealth – 138 billion dollars right now – is more than the GDP of over 130 countries across the globe. And it’s only getting bigger. …

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Amazon Vice President Grows a Conscience and Quits

May 6, 2020

On May 1, Tim Bray, Amazon’s Vice President for Web Services, resigned from his position at the company. …

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Jeff Bezos and Amazon: Profiting from the Crisis

May 3, 2020

Count to ten. Guess what? Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made $30,182 while you were counting. …

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World’s Richest Man Gets Richer! (on the backs of workers risking their lives)

April 23, 2020

News reports confirm that Jeff Bezos, already far and away the world’s richest man, increased his wealth by $25 BILLION in only six weeks! How did he do this? …

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Leaked Amazon Memo Details Plan to Smear Fired Warehouse Organizer: ‘He’s Not Smart or Articulate’

April 2, 2020

Written notes from the meeting, attended by CEO Jeff Bezos, detail Amazon’s strategy to fight union organizing, as well as efforts to obtain COVID-19 tests and protective masks for workers. …

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Workers at Amazon Take Responsibility for Health and Strike

March 31, 2020

Amazon workers in New York at the Staten Island warehouse went on strike on Monday the 30th, demanding that Amazon shut down their shipping center to get it cleaned for Covid-19. …

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Amazon workers to walk out over lack of protective gear amid coronavirus

March 30, 2020

Employees in New York facility say they have to ‘force company’s hand’ to act and accuse company of poor communication …

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