Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos.
Despite lobbying hard for a mail-in vote in the 2020 presidential election, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos (who also owns The Washington Post) has made a 180-degree turn in just three months. He is now asking Amazon employees to vote on the union themselves to ensure “valid, fair and successful elections.
According to a Jan. 26 report in the National File, employees at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, were preparing to vote to join the retail, wholesale and department store union when Amazon suddenly and completely changed its voting plans.
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which is responsible for the referendum, had planned to begin the mail-in ballot on Feb. 8, but Amazon has called a halt to the process and lawyers filed a motion on Jan. 21 to delay the vote, which is estimated to involve more than 6,000 employees.
In a statement released to CNN, an Amazon spokesperson detailed the company’s position on the voting process, “The best way to have an effective, fair and successful election is to conduct it manually and in person (on site), making it easy for co-workers to verify and vote close to their workplace.”
“Amazon has provided the National Labor Relations Board with a secure, confidential and convenient offer for employees to vote on-site, which is in the best interest of all parties – employee convenience, vote fidelity and timeliness of vote counting. We will continue to insist on fair election measures and we want everyone to vote, so our focus is on making sure that happens.”
Employees report poor working conditions and inadequate pay at the facilities owned by Bezos, the richest man in the world and a leading supporter of the global left-wing movement. The online retailer has reportedly reaped record profits in recent months thanks to the Amazon-backed Wuhan pneumonia (COVID-19) blockade, but some employees say they still rely on government assistance to make ends meet because of low wages and stagnation.
Despite Bezos’ preference for the left, Amazon has been staunchly opposed to unionization of its employees for years. in 2017, populist factions on the left and right united to oppose the construction of a pair of taxpayer-funded Amazon headquarters facilities in Arlington, Virginia, and New York City, prompting the company to move its planned New York operations to Tennessee.
Amazon’s opponents, who liken their plan to a 20th century high-tech version of “company town,” as seen throughout Appalachian coal country, would allow employees of the planned new headquarters to be encouraged to live in Amazon-owned apartments, shop at Amazon-owned stores and live most of their daily lives within the confines of the company’s offerings. most of their daily lives.
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