Jeff Tiedrich tweet on Bezos:

[tblue37]

pro tip: if you can afford your own personal space program, you can afford to pay your warehouse workers union wages

Link to tweet

[MontanaMama]

1. And health insurance.

That bozo can afford health insurance for his employees.

[BigmanPigman]

2. Amazon is already doing PR...

When I was just linked to You Tube the ad that was running started with, "Amazon pays workers $15 an hour,....". I couldn't even stand to listen to the BS ad long enough to hit "skip ads". Fuck you Bezos!!!!!!!!!!!

[lunatica]

4. Yeah, Amazon is really patting itself on the back in ads

New employees also get health coverage on their first day is their claim which sounds like bragging.

If Bezos really wants the best for his employees then he’ll accept their Union. And he can still be nice to them as he claims. Happy employees are productive employees.

[BigmanPigman]

11. He acts like a Robber Barron

in the same mold as Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Carnegie and Morgan. If they could get away with children working in sweatshops they would do it in a heartbeat. American oligarchs are alive and thriving in the USA.

[lunatica]

22. I agree with you

There’s no low they won’t subsume in a second if it meant they could be a few Pennys richer for it.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. That was my immediate thought, too! Good Grief!

[Cha]

5. Rt 🤷‍♂️💕TY! WTF is up

with being so selfishly Greedy!?

💙💛

[Beatlelvr]

6. Exactly how I feel

About those fucking Waltons.

[gaskinite]

7. Maybe pay taxes

On a little more than 82,000.00. I hope Bezos burns on the launch pad.

[Celerity]

10. Wishing him a grisly death that would also kill others is not a good look m8.

Welcome to DU, enjoy your stay.

[live love laugh]

17. Is it his fault he doesn't pay more taxes?

[soldierant]

19. Only in part.

Being one of a group of centibillionaires and regular billionaires who collectively donate tons of money to avoid paying taxes, yeah, some of it is on him.

[live love laugh]

20. So all billionaires lobby against taxes?

[niyad]

8. Exactly.

[lame54]

9. And bigger pee bottles

[uponit7771]

12. K&R, too many people claim Bezos can walk and chew gum at the same time. walk the walk

[no_hypocrisy]

13. My friend works in a non-union Amazon warehouse.

IMO, she's totally brainwashed. Doesn't want a union. Bezos pays her enough.

Yet she's ready to bolt from her job, which entails 10 hour shifts four nights a week (11:00 to 9:00).

She doesn't believe in unions at all. Let's say she has a myopic viewpoint of labor.

I don't argue with her; I listen. The only thing I respond with is not all warehouses are the same b/c of management, employees, and general circumstances. Staten Island had to be so bad that forming a union was the only option left.

[moondust]

14. Indeed.

[live love laugh]

15. Walmart and other billionaires don't pay as much.

Why is Amazon the only one repeatedly singled out?

[Hekate]

16. Maybe Bezos cares about his image more than Walmart does

[live love laugh]

18. Nothing wrong with that.

Funny how the Amazon bashers never respond to questions about other billionaire companies paying lower wages.

Trump openly attacked Amazon and Bezos indicating the bashing is more of a RW political focus ... the unquestioning sheeple seem to just follow along.

[soldierant]

21. It struck me that one of the two main organizers

is named Chris (short for Christian) Smalls. I could not help wondering whether he is related to (possibly even a direct descendant of) Roberts Smalls. I realize it's s kind of "out there" thought, but not impossible. I wold love to know.