Tag: Amazon
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Seattle Tech Leaders Panel Confronts Tough Changes Required by #MeToo Movement
As Erik Molano scrolled through his Facebook feed with endless streams of #MeToo posts inundating his eyes, he felt anger but also felt removed. He wasn’t a perpetrator of these harmful and degrading situations. Then he saw it. A woman who, on his Facebook feed, made a #MeToo post explicitly naming him and something he did. […]
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UW professor explains the complexity behind Amazon’s HQ2
While a job boost of 50,000 seems appealing at first glance to any metropolitan city, there’s more to it than meets the eye. At the beginning of this month, Amazon announced it is scoping for new places to build its second campus. This means cities across the U.S. and Canada are submitting applications and bids. …. [Jeffrey] […]
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Five Months Later, Amazon subcontractor SIS Takes Small Steps to Remedy Worker Mistreatment
Photo courtesy of Erin Sroka When workers allied with SEIU in February, it came to light that, for the second time, Amazon contractor Security Industry Specialists (SIS) was allegedly discriminating against its own workers. After months of continued action, Muslim employees were finally given a list of accessible prayer rooms, but some still face repercussions […]
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Second subcontractor protest yields silence from Amazon
Not only did Amazon actively decide during a second protest to not meet with Security Industry Specialists (SIS) workers — subcontracted by Amazon — but the company also hasn’t made or asked for any changes since the first protest. via Second Subcontractor Protest Yields Silence From Amazon — South Seattle Emerald
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Pray-in spotlights Amazon for subcontractor’s alleged discriminatory policies
On Friday afternoon, Amazon employees gazing from the windows of the tech behemoth’s South Lake Union headquarters caught a glimpse of hundreds of devout Muslims, clergy, labor unionists and some of their fellow workers engaged in a mass prayer demonstration to support some of the company’s subcontractors who see Amazon’s current policies […] via Pray-In Spotlights […]
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