Exploited Amazon workers need a union. When will they get one? | Michael Sainato

Amazon has suppressed all efforts to unionise since its founding, but with widespread employee abuse, only unions can hold the company accountable

With a net worth of around $140bn, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is now the richest person in the world. That distinction has come at the expense of Amazon’s workers. In order for those workers to begin sharing in the vast wealth their labor has afforded Bezos and other Amazon executives, they need a union.

Since Amazon’s founding in 1994, the company has successfully suppressed all efforts by its employees to unionize and improve working conditions. A few years ago, maintenance and repair technicians at Amazon filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board announcing their intention to form what would have been Amazon’s first union. Amazon immediately hired a law firm to suppress the organizing effort.

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