If anyone could be described a modern-day robber baron it would be Amazon founder Jeff Bezos whose personal “wealth shot into newfound stratospheres” this week to make him the world’s newest and only $100bn billionaire. The secret to Bezos’ wealth is simple: instead of treating his workers as fellow humans he considers them to be […]
This article, originally published last year, was written by Leicester Socialist Party member Tessa Warrington and was first published in the national newspaper of the Socialist Party, but given the ongoing campaign being waged by the Baker’s Union to organise workers in Leicestershire (at Amazon’s new site in Ellistown, Coalville) it is now being republished […]
Working for mammoth corporations like Amazon is an unfortunate necessity of life for many workers. Profits and working conditions for the bosses are generous to say the least, while the opposite is true for Amazon’s countless thousands of employees. Business is booming, and an article in the Financial Times made this absolutely clear: “In 1996, […]
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