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Jeff Bezos is stepping down as CEO of Amazon. Let’s take a moment to recognize the legacy he’s leaving behind—a legacy of union busting, historic inequality, and horrific working conditions.

Amazon has raked in more than $14B in profit during the pandemic—$5.8B more than last year. Their workers pay the price.

Over 20,000 Amazon workers have tested positive for COVID-19. The Alabama warehouse had one of the company’s highest positivity rates in the country.

Amazon could have quadrupled the extra COVID-19 compensation they gave to workers, and still made more profit than last year. But workers haven’t seen hazard pay since June.

Jeff Bezos’s wealth increased by $75.6 billion from March to December. That’s 42 times the cost of all hazard pay that Amazon gave its roughly 1 million workers in 2020.

The company has repeatedly ignored demands by workers to improve COVID-19 safety protections and basic working conditions.

19 workers have died at Amazon facilities since 2013.

Thousands more suffer illnesses and injuries due to grueling productivity quotas.

Amazon fired at least 3 warehouse workers last year who called for better working conditions.

But a group of Amazon workers and @RWDSU organizers in Bessemer, Alabama, are working to change all this. Since the summer, more than half of the 5800 workers at the Bessemer warehouse have signed cards saying they want to form a union.

Voting begins February 8. Workers will vote by mail to determine whether to form Amazon’s first U.S. union. Amazon has already started ramping up anti-union efforts.

The @BAmazonunion will help Bessemer workers secure the crucial protections they need and deserve. But the effort could be felt far beyond Alabama, creating a ripple effect that spreads to the 800+ other U.S. Amazon warehouses and changes the lives of 1.2 million Amazon workers.

Follow along as we cover the unionization efforts in Alabama, highlight worker stories, and fight to hold Amazon accountable.

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