Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck, accumulate little to no wealth and pay taxes. A family with a median income of $70,000 per year pays an average tax rate of 14% per year. But the big capitalists live in a different world. As their wealth expands, their...
MacKenzie Scott, who divorced from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in 2019, is troubled by the tremendous and growing wealth inequality in the world. “In this effort,” she writes of her $2.7 billion giveaway, “we are governed by a humbling belief that it would be...
Bren Riley, the head of the Alabama AFL-CIO, told a newspaper reporter: “We want to partner with Amazon once we get a first contract; we want Amazon to succeed. We want Jeff Bezos to make another $10 billion.” Riley continued: “We want employees to be very...
In the most closely watched unionization drive in years, fewer than half of the nearly 6,000 workers at the Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, voted 1,798 to 738 against joining the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). The mainstream...
Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama have been organizing to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. If these workers successfully build a union at Amazon, a notoriously anti-union company, it would be a signal to thousands more that it is possible. On...
