Amazon spent over $14 million on anti-union consultants in 2022. Ana Kasparian discusses on The Young Turks. Watch TYT LIVE on weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live
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"As Amazon Labor Union's groundbreaking labor movement gained momentum � and, in some ways, faltered � in 2022, Amazon was busy shelling out millions of dollars to anti-union consultants in order to ensure that the union movement would fail, new filings show.
As first reported by HuffPost, new financial disclosures filed on Friday with the Department of Labor show that Amazon spent $14.2 million on anti-union consultants. These consultants are hired by companies seeking to bust union efforts, advising them on ways to skirt or violate federal laws in order to crush labor organizing."*
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Americans should revolt and not buy from Amazon.we need to make them union.sorry to say but if that don’t work u have to start going after employees.I don’t understand. Why people vote nonunion,I’m a union carpenter and make 3figure salary.
UNION MAKES MORE
@MrBrownsugar85 Says:
lol the only reason i like my unionized job is that it makes dumb dumbs mad
@whyforcemetohaveachannel3228 Says:
I don’t understand the relevance of the construction footage …
@whowherewhatwhywen Says:
They've gotten so greedy, that they don't even want to give us the crumbs anymore.
@johannjohann6523 Says:
I was a consultant, I know dirty term. But when you can do the work of 3-4 people, well. Anyway, there are some great consultants out there, but regretfully the majority are not. Just people who think highly of themselves, and don't achieve results that others cannot. It's really weak of Amazon's executive management to even need consultants regarding unions. The easy thing to do, raise every employees wage by $20,000 A year, and Amazon can still make $14-15 Billion a year. The numbers are accurate.
@tacomuncher211 Says:
Are you kidding?? i 100% believe this
@ChristianHardman-pc6lb Says:
That's not how much the union busters Get paid. That's how much they charge an hour Janelle these companies that do the Union busting of course they have overhead too so just like any other company they charge so much an hour and then they pay their employees so much now which I'm perfectly fine with
@mdavis3262 Says:
They rather do that instead of paying the actual workers
@divineboi97 Says:
Your not gonna believe how many amazon workers were layed off and different contractors hubs shut down
@claymenefee6999 Says:
You'd think that the establishment democrats claiming to be "pro-union" would be talking about these statistics. But nope. Serial bunglers.
@claymenefee6999 Says:
Theres a lot of money in making sure other people dont have money. Its called theft.
@skepticalpickle5258 Says:
Eat the rich
@renardleblanc5556 Says:
They'll spend that much knowing how much they'd loose to a union. That money? Unionizing would put that in the workers pockets.
@iamjaykaye Says:
Jeff Bezos. Helping keep the douche in fiduciary. Spelling's wrong but you get the idea.
@SoloDolo21488 Says:
It will be hilarious if the union busting team were under a union. And it kills me how they treat the people that make them money like shit NO LOGIC AT ALL
@caroletrapp3226 Says:
Instead of taking care of employees
@Lynn-ce8rr Says:
They like having slaves......
@claytontherrien7583 Says:
Worst delivery ever for Ana. Still ok, but poor for her.
@guillermoelnino Says:
but you leftists are supposed to worship these billionaires.
@hotrod8915 Says:
Keep complaining and demanding more money. Biden is flooding the US with illegal aliens that will do the same work for less pay without complaining. That is why you will never get Medicare for all or decent wages. This is not a new trend. Undocumented workers are how big corporations keep wages low.
@atticusandwinifred3274 Says:
So, the teaser photo shows a pic of Bezos but he was not CEO after the summer of 2021.
@CharlieAndFrankie Says:
They could have given every employee a $2.92 raise for the money that they spent on this
@ak102986 Says:
They could have used that money to help their workers.
@chevyv20 Says:
I am a Union member proudly of I.B.E.W Union Local #26 for about 30 years! Please if anyone involved with this important movement towards unionize Amazon is watching, and I hope you are! THE FIGHT IS GOING TO BE HARD, AND IT WON'T BE PAINLESS! HOWEVER, NOTHING WORTH WHILE SELDOM EVER IS! YOU NEED TO WORK TOGETHER, AND THE REWARDS WILL BE WELL WORTH IT! IF YOU DON'T STAND TOGETHER YOU WILL SURELY FAIL!
@angelikalindenau943 Says:
Every single person has it in their power to shop or not to shop via A. Just saying...
@sailordaigurren8225 Says:
Ana throwing some light shade on others making public comments about her extremely TERF-y tweet
@nikm4253 Says:
I wouldn't say I'm the biggest advocate for unions (they have their pros and cons) but if anybody needs a union, it's Amazon. Working in their warehouse was one of the hardest jobs I ever had. Those employees need stewards who will stand up for them when they need it.
@amercanmade2685 Says:
I would agree with the ideal of Unions if the workers would be allowed to opt out of being in the union. Right to Work. If Unions are so great then you should not have to force anyone to join so why cant it be left up to each person.
@DocOrtmeyer Says:
Lol that’s nothing.
@JohnSmith-xd8do Says:
I would close my business before letting it go union
@ibrahimasorycamara8402 Says:
PAR CE QUE C'EST POUR MOI
@990mustang Says:
Unions don’t care about workers. Only money
@ocsrc Says:
It doesn't matter what it costs
It is the IDEA
They must destroy the idea of a union
They can't allow the little people to have any power
It is a precedent that can never be allowed
It is the opposite of Capitalism
The corporations would rather close the business and burn it To The ground then to ever allow the employees to be treated fairly
@daltonwatson5795 Says:
Are you in a union Anna, if not , why, is your salary way beyond average wage workers that a union wouldn't do any positive wage concern?
If not in a union why do you care?
@petermontoya1796 Says:
Republicans are anti-union. I don't see them going after the law enforcement unions or the banking unions. Why is that ?? Because they make money off of these people.
@desperadox7565 Says:
Anti-union consultants? America is insane. No other country have these.
@Scevenex Says:
If a corporation has a choice between spending 10 million dollars on measures to make employees lives hell to save 1 million in "waste", they'll do it every time. They'll spend 100:1 to stop unions.
@carolinematusevich889 Says:
Oh wow. Hardly anyone comments anymore on TYT. I wonder why that happened? 🤔😏
@carolinematusevich889 Says:
Oh, it's a lot worse than that.
Did you all know that outside of the Amazon Corporate Office, Bezos no longer hires anyone living in the US now for his call centers? True story. I just found out today speaking to their retention department, which appears to be in the UK. So, if there's a complicated issue involving your account, or with Subscribe & Save, and their employees get nervous and can't resolve the matter, and then their English pronunciation goes out the window, you can't be transferred to a US office as it doesn't exist. The same goes with remote workers. There are none working for their call center living in the US.
And I'm not sure saving a few dollars each month is worth the aggravation and waste of time. You spend twice as long on the phone straining to understand their customer service agents.
Bezos is too cheap, too greedy, and too stupid, and he simply does not deserve having Americans patronize his business. And I'm not patronizing Amazon just to keep his poorly paid warehouse workers employed. I'm locked in for April, but no more Amazon after this. I'm done!
@antinatalope Says:
Definition of trickle down economics is some CEO peeing out his office window...
@antinatalope Says:
Heaven forbid they would put that money into the people who actually make their company function...
Is it a wonder there's a work backlash?
@russellbootes2818 Says:
$3000 a day is not $6 million a year. It is $1.095 million per year, if you work every single day. No one does that. Your math is atrocious Ana. 6 million a year is is almost $16500 per day. I think you mean $3000 PER HOUR
@aistle2064 Says:
jeff bezos just wants some more billions
@mariterrones3716 Says:
If corporations like Amazon could spend 14 million dollars a year for union busting businesses you have to wonder why? Do they get better returns using these companies rather than paying their employees fair wages. Usually happy well paid workers work better and more consistently but companies like Amazon uses the divide and conquer theory. It seems that Amazon knows how exactly to destroy the employees chances to work together by giving some employees incentives to cause more division and more problems.
@lindsayjohnston7465 Says:
Amazon has a high percentage of workers injured on the job It's not just about saving money on wages and benefits it's about union protecting workers with safety standards
@lindsayjohnston7465 Says:
Union wages and benefits set the standard for each industry benefiting some non union workers
@lindsayjohnston7465 Says:
Union raises are tied to inflation and cost of living
@wrongturnVfor Says:
Yeah stuff doesnt ususally make sense to you because you dont understand a lot of things and dont do enough research.maybe instead of just dismissing it as "doesnt make sense to me" actually state the reason so we can evaluate. it literally takes 2 minutes which you could have not spent whining about your perosnal grievances on air.
@wrongturnVfor Says:
This is why Ana sane people keep telling you not to keep mindlessly dunking on others when you disagree with them either. Chickens come home to roost girl. And if someone calls you out on dumb takes, maybe educate yourself about it instead of mindlessly ploughing on with the same nonsense and whining about it on air yourself.That is how real progressives function. Like you seriously need to learn how economics works and you literally have ZERO idea what is happening right now or what has actually happened in the past 20 years. You continuing to pretend like Powell is a trumpist when he is a fave of obama camp, dodd frank architects and literally agrees with 95% of Yellen's policies (when Yellen was Fed head) is prime example of just how clueless you are and how willing to engage in tribal plitics to prove a biased point instead of logically and factually analysing something.
@wrongturnVfor Says:
Okay smalls, it doesnt help when you make it about race. It doesnt matter what their skin color is, address the problems being raised by them.
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