Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Amazon Employees for Climate Justice have threatened to strike because Amazon is not doing enough to promote climate action.
Nearly 1,000 Amazon employees plan a walkout to protest climate change
By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business
Updated 1934 GMT (0334 HKT) September 9, 2019New York (CNN Business)
Nearly 1,000 Amazon employees have pledged to walk out in protest of what they say is their company’s inaction on climate change.The collective known as “Amazon Employees for Climate Justice” posted a letter online Monday declaring that Amazon should lead on the issue because it’s “one of the largest and most powerful companies in the world.”
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For example, the group wants Amazon to stop donating to politicians and lobbyists who deny climate change. It also wants Amazon to stop awarding contracts to fossil fuel companies. And the group wants the company to test electric vehicles in cities that are most affected by the company’s environmental impact. The group said it was “critical” for Amazon to emit zero emissions by 2030.
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Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/09/business/amazon-employee-climate-change-walkout/index.html
I just have one question.
Given Amazon’s alleged reputation for working employees to the limit of their endurance, how did 1000 employees ever manage to find the personal time and energy to develop outside interests? For shame Bezos, your shareholders expect more from you.
These lefties may not think that they are working toward a potentially violent reaction..even civil war…but do they really expect Americans to quietly and voluntarily submit to a Socialist Authoritarian tyranny? One transparently built upon lies and brought to power by propaganda and decades of insidious infltration of all of our civilization’s institutions.
The leadership of this Socialist cabal is made up of extremely wealthy individuals that are at the top of the hierarchy in media, industry, Entertainment, government, and finance. They wield lots of unelected illegitimate power.
I hope that these socialist activists are still as repulsive to the average American as they are to me.
I’m slowly getting to the point where there will be no limit to what I’d be willing to do to fight these evil traitorous wannabe tyrants.
It’s going to be tough to win elections with 99% Fake News promoting the opposition to freedom (and our Constitution)… and 99% of the internet giants pulling out all the stops in opposition as well.
On this issue, Besos will “cave” in a politically correct manner. He’s above supporting things like the truth and individual freedoms.
It seems to me that this climate crisis has grown exponentially over the past three or four months, and is actually a stand-in for “impeach Trump”, which collapsed about three or four months ago. It is a replacement tantrum.
Has anybody ever thought about Amazon itself might be the ringleader? The employees do the protesting so Amazon can do the virtue signalling?
Hey Alexa, what do these charts tell you.
“It seems to me that this climate crisis has grown exponentially over the past three or four months,”
Jumping the shark, I hope.
What does this gang off 1,000 think will happen? Will the fearsome Bezosebub grant them a boon? What affect will this strike have on the climate,even if Bezosebub will promote electric cars in certain cities? Seems like more virtue signaling and self righteous grandstanding to me. Why don’t they organize something which might have more of an impact than a side bar on their local financially strapped news rag, like ….uh…lemmie see….sailing a yacht across the Atlantic to attend a climate conference? Oh…yeah, oh well….
The curved arrow in the Amazon logo is meant to convey the message that it sells all items from A to Z—i.e., that it is “The Everything Store.” (I leanred this from reading a book on the company.) But who here has ever made that connection?
The arrow’s point, to make that message clearer, should terminate at the left edge of the Z, not under its middle, just as its other end begins at the right edge of the A. I sent this suggestion to Amazon three years ago and got some boilerplate dismissal. Dopes.
What do you call 1000 Amazon employees going on strike?
A good start.
I’m having a hard time thinking of a way Amazon could exist without fossil fuels. Their whole business model is to bypass the local store (maybe even in walking/biking distance) and bring stuff directly to you on a truck, which picked up the package from a crossdock facility, which in turn got in from an airport or harbor, where it was unloaded from a ship or plane after traveling thousands of miles from the factory location.
It is a continual astonishment to me that people could be so clueless about all the things their livelihood depends on. Amazon does not need to fire them; they will select themselves out of the job market and the gene pool soon enough.
give every one of them that goes on strike a DCM in this case not a distinguished conduct medal it will be a don’t come Monday.
Fortunately there is no carbon footprint for deliveries that take less than two days.
“If you don’t like our company policies….”
“…I suggest you find another company to work for”.
The reality is that the climate change we have been experiencing is caused by the sun and the oceans over which mankind has no control, even Amazon.
Please add costs to the business essential which we either pass on to customers meaning lower sales and fewer jobs or we have to take out of the business somewhere, probably through fewer jobs.
Wonder if these strikers will be putting up their hands?
I would suggest those climate concerned Amazon employees get the ball rolling, by donating 50% of their salary to fighting climate change. That should give us a good idea on their beliefs and commitments.
A Hollywood director should film the walkout event. They could save money on extras for the next zombie movie! > ; }
This has “astroturf fraud” written all over it.
It’s a PR stunt by Bezos, for an excuse to push another element of his leftist agenda.
They should all glue themselves to the Amazon parking lot. That would be awesome. They could even buy the glue from Amazon, saving money. Win-win!
Time to replace these fools with robots, that would seriously reduce Amazon’s carbon footprint.
Well that should end Pizza Friday’s unless of course they were cooked with solar panels .
Amazons entire business model completely collapses without fossil fuels .
Why not get 1,000 somber AMERICANS to replace them? They are many people that need to be gainfully employed!!
Great, a good start.