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Our New Year's Resolution for Amazon.com

Fri, 01/13/2012 - 12:23 — Dave Culver
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Labor

  • Our efforts signaled to Amazon that consumers are carefully watching how it treats its workers.
  • Almost 13,000 boycott Amazon.com
  • Special Report | The Wal-Mart Problem

Hilary Woodward, American Rights at Work

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This holiday, we took a pledge together. You joined me and nearly 13,000 others in avoiding shopping at Amazon to protest the retailer's inhumane labor practices.

We also made news together. Our campaign and holiday boycott garnered coverage in the New York Times and Allantown (PA) Morning Call  – the newspaper that first exposed the sweatshop-like conditions at the Breinigsville, Pennsylvania Amazon warehouse.

We even raised consciousness together. By spreading the word to our friends, family, and fellow Amazon customers, we helped start a dialogue about the human cost of incredibly low prices and incredibly fast shipping.

And most importantly, we had impact together. Our efforts signaled to Amazon that consumers are carefully watching how it treats its workers.

I can't thank you enough for your deep concern for the warehouse employees at Amazon and your commitment to improving their working conditions.
As we kick off the new year, it's the perfect time for Amazon to resolve to reform its labor practices. On our blog I discuss ways the company can become a good employer in 2012 and would like to get your feedback.

Read "New Year's Resolutions for Amazon.com."

As for us? Our New Year's resolution is to continue holding companies accountable for how they treat their workers. We hope you'll join us!
In solidarity,

Related:

Almost 13,000 boycott Amazon.com, Spencer Soper, Allantown (PA) Morning Call
Local workers who complained about conditions are pleased by response to online petition.

Special Report | The Wal-Mart Problem: Week of January 8, David Culver, Ed., Evergreene Digest

  • Walmart Blacklisted By Major Pension Fund Over Poor Labor Practices
  • The Walmart Heirs Have the Same Net Worth as the Bottom 30% of Americans
  • The Walmart Problem: Uncovering Labor's Place In An Era Of Joblessness
  • Wal-Mart Heiress’s Art Museum a Moral Blight
     

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