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- Published on Wednesday, 05 June 2019 10:12
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Amazon’s sketchy CEO, Jeff Bezos, doesn’t know how to run the world’s richest company. It’s time to blame Bezos for Amazon’s horrific treatment of workers, immigrants, and our changing climate.
With your help we can get Bezos a boss and end his shameful reign as both CEO and Chair of the Board.
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Things are going horribly wrong at Amazon… and that's bad news for us all.
Jeff Bezos is no longer the scrappy entrepreneur selling books online from his garage. He’s the menacing ringleader of a one-man show called Amazon, the richest company in the world.
From breaking workers dignity with gruelling labor at minuscule pay to plotting how to... make money off of deporting and detaining children, Bezos is to blame for Amazon’s malpractice. And as CEO and chair of the board he has made sure that no one has the power to stop him.
Just one misstep: He forgot about us.
When Amazon shareholders meet at its annual general meeting later this month, they’ll vote on a SumOfUs-backed effort to finally get Bezos a boss and some much needed oversight. And thanks to your pension and mutual funds, you have a seat at the table.
Click here to use our easy tool and demand that Bezos get a boss ASAP.
Being a leader means accepting responsibility when things go horribly wrong -- which is exactly what workers expect from Mr. Bezos. That’s why New Yorkers came together to shut down Amazon’s plans for a second headquarters in Queens—a plan which would displace working-class communities while giving cash handouts to the mega-corporation.
And it’s even why Amazon employees have called out some of Bezos’ biggest missteps—from trying to sell facial recognition technology to ICE to failing to take on the threat of climate change head on. Plus, it’s just smart business: half of S&P 500 company boards have already taken on this leadership structure.
The tides are turning against King Bezos. Last year, we got 1 out of 3 of Amazon’s shareholders to vote that Bezos needs a boss. Thats huge, but we need to build even more pressure to deal a winning blow at this month’s annual general meeting.
Thanks for all that you do,
Sijal, Lisa and the team at SumOfUs
More information:
Over 4,200 Amazon Workers Push for Climate Change Action, Including Cutting Some Ties to Big Oil The New York Times, April 10 2019
'We are not robots': Amazon warehouse employees push to unionize The Guardian, January 1 2019
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