{"id":50795,"date":"2021-02-23T19:06:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T19:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/?p=268510"},"modified":"2021-02-23T19:06:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T19:06:43","slug":"amazon-faces-a-day-of-reckoning-for-its-treatment-of-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/23\/amazon-faces-a-day-of-reckoning-for-its-treatment-of-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon faces a day of reckoning for its treatment of workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Amazon faces a day of reckoning for its treatment of workers\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xjIW5Rk2jdE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Amazon is intensifying the anti-union campaign at its Bessemer, Alabama, plant, where workers are currently voting to unionize. On Feb. 20, Amazon workers and their allies rallied in cities across the country to demand Amazon halt its anti-union tactics and improve workplace conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Current and former Amazon employees who attended the rally in Baltimore County, Maryland, told The Real News that Amazon has not followed through on promises to protect worker safety. Activists say a union victory in Alabama could be a boost for labor organizing across the country and would be a significant defeat for one of the world\u2019s most powerful corporations.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/amazon-faces-a-day-of-reckoning-for-its-treatment-of-workers\">Amazon faces a day of reckoning for its treatment of workers<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/\">The Real News Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/amazon-faces-a-day-of-reckoning-for-its-treatment-of-workers\">The Real News Network<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon workers and their allies rallied last weekend to support the union drive at the Bessemer, Alabama, facility. Workers say the company has failed to protect worker safety or improve working conditions even while Amazon and Jeff Bezos profited from the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/amazon-faces-a-day-of-reckoning-for-its-treatment-of-workers\">Amazon faces a day of reckoning for its treatment of workers<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/\">The Real News Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1535,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5942,453],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70642,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50795\/revisions\/70642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}