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Bernie Sanders Asks Jeff Bezos What Is Your Problem With Amazon Workers Organizing
On 3/14/21 at 6:00 PM EDT
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders challenged Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to explain reports of the retailing giant s alleged aggressive anti-union tactics being used to prevent workers from organizing at U.S. facilities.
Bezos, who until his recent divorce was the richest man on Earth worth $184 billion, declined to attend this week s Senate Budget Committee hearing on income inequality. Sanders, who chairs the committee, personally invited the billionaire founder. The national spotlight has focused on thousands of workers trying to form a union at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham. Bipartisan lawmakers including President Joe Biden and Florida GOP Senator Marco Rubio have publicly stated their support for the Alabama workers unionization plan.
Sanders is known to be a frequent Amazon critic and went after the company earlier for the disparity in pay between top executives and workers who deliver packages to customers. Amazon had announced raising its minimum wage to $15 an hour following the criticism from Sanders and others.
Amazon workers hold up signs while Congressional delegates visit the Amazon Fulfillment Center after meeting with workers and organizers involved in the Amazon BHM1 facility unionization effort, represented by the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union on March 5, 2021 in Birmingham, Alabama. Workers at Amazon facility currently make $15 an hour, however they feel that their requests for less strict work mandates are not being heard by management. (Getty Images)
US House passes Biden economic recovery bill
The US House of Representatives passed the Biden administration’s $1.9 trillion “economic recovery” bill Wednesday afternoon on a near party-line vote, 220-212, sending it on to the White House. The Senate passed the bill on a 50-49 vote on Saturday. The White House announced that Biden would sign the bill into law on Friday.
The legislation was passed only a few days before the expiration on Sunday of federal supplemental unemployment benefits, passed in December while Donald Trump was still president.
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The extension of federal supplemental benefits is only one component of the legislation, although, at $350 billion, it is one of the costliest. Other major pieces of the American Recovery Act the grandiose and misleading title given to the bill by Democratic Party publicists include $1,400 checks for 85 percent of the American population, total cost about $400 billion, and $350 billion in emergency
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