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( This is why workers must be protected from pieces of shit like Bezos. )
Written notes from the meeting, attended by CEO Jeff Bezos, detail Amazon's strategy to fight union organizing, as well as efforts to obtain COVID-19 tests and protective masks for workers.
by Paul Blest
Apr 2 2020, 3:46pm
Leaked notes from an internal meeting of Amazon leadership obtained by VICE News reveal company executives discussed a plan to smear fired warehouse employee Christian Smalls, calling him not smart or articulate as part of a PR strategy to make him the face of the entire union/organizing movement.
Hes 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 were trying to protect workers, wrote Amazon General Counsel David Zapolsky in notes from the meeting forwarded widely in the company.
The discussion took place at a daily meeting, which included CEO Jeff Bezos, to update each other on the coronavirus situation. Amazon SVP of Global Corporate Affairs Jay Carney described the purpose to CNN on Sunday: We go over the update on what's happening around the world with our employees and with our customers and our businesses. We also spend a significant amount of time just brainstorming about what else we can do about COVID-19.
Zapolskys notes also detailed Amazons efforts to buy millions of protective masks to protect its workers from the coronavirus, as well as an effort to begin producing and selling its own masks. So far, the company has secured at least 10 million masks for our operations guys, with 25 million more coming from a supplier in the next two weeks, Zapolsky wrote.
Amazon fired the warehouse worker Smalls on Monday, after he led a walkout of a number of employees at a Staten Island distribution warehouse. Amazon says he was fired for violating a company-imposed 14-day quarantine after he came into contact with an employee who tested positive for the coronavirus.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dm8bx/leaked-amazon-memo-details-plan-to-smear-fired-warehouse-organizer-hes-not-smart-or-articulate
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(57,112 posts)BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)I hope he sues their asses off!!!
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Would love to see him literally own company!
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(90,347 posts)Azathoth
(4,610 posts)They didn't publicly call him stupid and inarticulate. Their lawyer assessed him that way during their private PR strategy meeting.
His activism is fundamentally good and necessary, but I have a bad feeling his wrongful termination claims may not hold up. Amazon says they fired him for violating quarantine, he doesn't deny that but says he was singled out and was the only person asked to stay home, which Amazon denies. Sure, Amazon might be lying here, but I suspect Amazon wants to make him the face of the opposition because they aren't lying and thus know he will eventually be discredited.