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Bezos defends Amazon firing of activist employees
- Barrin92 6y agoAmazon has no problem with activism? Let's recall the leaked email from April when they decided to go after one activist personally >"SEATTLE — Amazon’s top legal executive suggested the company’s senior leaders fend of workplace safety criticism by trying to turn the focus on an activist warehouse worker it had fired just days earlier, according to leaked notes from a meeting with top executives. The company fired Chris Smalls, a New York warehouse worker, on Monday after he complained to several media outlets, including The Washington Post, that Amazon had not done enough to protect its workforce during the coronavirus pandemic. In an email recounting a meeting with senior executives, including chief executive Jeff Bezos, executives discussed a strategy to shift the focus to Smalls. (Bezos owns The Washington Post.) “He’s not smart, or articulate, and to the extent the press wants to focus on us versus him, we will be in a much stronger PR position than simply explaining for the umpteenth time how we’re trying to protect workers,” Amazon General Counsel David Zapolsky wrote in an email first obtained by the news site Vice. The Post confirmed the authenticity of the email." https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/04/02/amazon-executive-fired-worker/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/04/02/amazon-...