Workers at the Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama have been offered $2,000 dollars by the company to resign amidst their effort to unionize their workplace. Workers who quit would forfeit their vote in the union election which is slated to continue until...
Amazon employees in Bessemer, Alabama, have been organizing to form a union. It’s worth remembering why Amazon employees might want a union in the first place. In October 2020, Amazon admitted that at least twenty thousand of its employees had been infected by COVID....
On March 28, George Leigh, a worker at Amazon’s DNY4 distribution center in Bethpage, New York stopped working due to illness. On April 9 he died as a result of COVID-19. Leigh was 59 years old, leaving behind a daughter and grandchildren. At the warehouse he was a...
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. Since the beginning of this year alone (including the pandemic and lockdown) Bezos has gained 28 billion...
On May 1, Tim Bray, Amazon’s Vice President for Web Services, resigned from his position at the company. Here is the link to his blog, in which he expresses his thoughts. He saw Amazon warehouse workers get fired for speaking out against unsafe COVID-19...
