Amazon’s Top Divides over Coronaville Worker Clampdown

Wednesday, May 6th, 2020 - FQTN Feature
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It seems that even the top of Amazon can't stand what Amazon is allegedly doing to its workers, ignoring their concerns and forcing them to work in unsafe conditions (allegedly). The nature of our universe is such that any group that has any legitimate basis for complaint against any other group must be treated with a degree of skepticism as their concerns, legitimate or not, will quickly be co-opted and twisted to become vehicles of power for people who have no real desire to fix whatever issue you wanted fixed in the first place.
I write this because I don't wish to appear to take the words of these workers, these particular workers, as gospel that reflects true reality anymore than I would Amazon leadership's official narrative claiming there is nothing to see here and Amazon is doing a ok by its workers.
It means something significant, however, in calculating the real and imagined in any factional war of polemics when one person who has a decided vehicle of power interest in the Amazon leadership narrative chooses to jump ship and throw in with the workers, which is what happened here. I'll let you decide, in the end, based on your own research, the degree to which the workers are tools of authoritarian leftist factions or the degree to which Amazon leadership are protecting the interests of evil corpo-state actors who intend on bleeding every drop of blood out of every stone they find, but regardless, news of a VP throwing in with the workers over the leaders should, at the very least, cause you to pause when you consider the claims made by workers if you are on the side of the corpo-state owners and managers right from the start.
Excerpt from ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com
Amazon VP Resigns, calls company “Chickenshit” for disparging protesting workers
Tim Bray, a well known senior engineer and Vice President at Amazon has “quit in dismay” because Amazon has been “firing whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of Covid-19.” In an open letter on his website, Bray, who has worked at the company for nearly six years, called the company “chickenshit” for firing and disparaging employees who have organized protests. He also said the firings are "designed to create a climate of fear."….
In statements to Motherboard, Amazon has said its own protesting workers are “spreading misinformation and making false claims about Amazon,” and that it “objects to the irresponsible actions of labor groups.” Last month, Amazon fired Chris Smalls, an Amazon worker in New York City. In a meeting, Amazon executives said that they believe Smalls is not “smart or articulate,” and that publicly they would focus on “laying out the case for why the organizer’s conduct was immoral, unacceptable, and arguably illegal,” according to leaked notes from that meeting obtained by VICE News.
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