Inside Amazon’s plan to “neutralize” powerful unions by hiring ex-inmates and “vulnerable students”
Posted on AllSides July 29th, 2022
From The Left
ANALYSIS
In June 2021, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, one of the most powerful unions in the world, published a “special resolution” about Amazon, labeling the tech giant “an existential threat” and vowing that “building worker power at Amazon and helping those workers achieve a union contract is a top priority.”
But inside Amazon, company officials were already preparing for battle, according to a leaked internal memo viewed by Recode and reported on here for the first time. The document, from May 2021, offers rare insights into the anti-union strategies of one...