Posted on 03/31/2021 8:09:22 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Former Obama administration official Jay Carney, now Amazon’s vice president of global corporate affairs, is defending Amazon against allegations by its employees in Alabama who claim the multinational corporation’s workplace policies amount to abuse.
Last week, Sen. Bernie Sanders visited Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, whose votes are currently being tallied to decide if they will be the first Amazon workers to unionize in the United States.
In interviews with Sanders, Amazon workers at the Bessemer Amazon warehouse accused the corporation of implementing harsh packaging quotas, ignoring workplace injuries, and refusing to allow workers to use the warehouse’s elevators.
One Amazon worker, 51-year-old Linda Burns, said Amazon is “treating us like robots rather than humans.”
In response, Carney — who started working in an executive role at Amazon soon after leaving the Obama administration in 2014 — defended Amazon’s workplace policies in a post online.
With all due respect, Senator [Bernie Sanders], you’re wrong on this,” Carney wrote. “We treat our employees with dignity and respect. We offer a $15 min wage, health care from day one, and a safe, inclusive workplace.”
Americans by a majority support Amazon workers unionizing. A February survey of nearly 1,200 likely U.S. voters found that 69 percent support Amazon workers unionizing — including 69 percent of swing voters, 55 percent of Republicans, and 81 percent of Democrats.
The clash between Carney and Sanders comes after Amazon spokespeople responded to statements made by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) where she noted the corporation’s use of tax loopholes “to pay close to nothing in taxes.”
In the midst of economic lockdowns that have crippled small and medium-sized businesses, Amazon has profited billions and made 2020 the corporation’s most profitable year. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, similarly, boosted his fortune by 60 percent since March 2020.
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Donate to the lefties and you too can be a robber baron.
I’ve never heard anything good about working for Amazon even from people with well paying office jobs.
With all due respect, Senator [Bernie Sanders], you’re wrong on this. We treat our employees with dignity and respect. We offer a $15 min wage, health care from day one, and a safe, inclusive workplace.”
Funny isn’t it?
Obviously everyone who works for Amazon hates working for Amazon....
Well, senator, if you wanted Amazon to pay lots of taxes why did you put all those loopholes in the tax laws?
She wouldn't have lasted a day at my noisy, oily, greasy auto body stamping plant production line.
I haven’t gotten around to asking every single person who works there yet
MANY, MANY years ago, I worked in a factory setting...I cut pieces of metal off a roll of stock, using my foot to trigger the operation. 8 hours a day...40 hours a week.
I didn’t like the job for ONLY one reason: UNION membership was required. Otherwise, It was a good job for the time-—early 60’s.
Yeah, I made it a full half day at Amazon’s Thornton Colorado warehouse fulfillment center. Was told not to come back after lunch.
There’s just some things some one who is a half-century old and that’s only done white-collar work should do. Attempting to work at a brutal blue-collar muscle job is one of them. Doubly so having to wear a face mask during that work.
..this may all be true, I’m not excusing nor defending it...however no one if being forced to work there...
Jay Carney’s the guy who has soviet propaganda pictures on his walls — both at home and at work, IIRC.
https://www.businessinsider.com/soviet-propaganda-posters-jay-carney-2014-4
In my day, it was called WORK!
You do what the boss says, follow his rules and get paid.
If you don’t like those rules or the pay, QUIT and go find a better job or one more to your liking.
Quotas? Ever hear of piecework? How about paid by the bushel?
One job I had, you worked AS HARD AS YOU COULD for 12 hours, then come back tomorrow for 12 more. Why? Because I was PAID to. I even got OVERTIME for 4 of those hours.
I wasn’t “abused”, I LOVED it. Challenging, physical, the customers were being served, the boss was being served, I was having fun and BEING PAID!
I think they have both whine and cheese at Amazon.
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