Amazon VP Resigns, Calls Company ‘Chickenshit’ for Firing Protesting Workers
Amazon needs to stop internally framing labour dispute problems as PR problems. Huge respect to Tim Bray for walking the walk in defence of his values, something I've only rarely seen from high-earning people with left-wing sentiments.My own sense of the situation (and I could well be wrong) is that Amazon is not a particularly bad place to work as a warehouse worker (they after all employ hundreds of thousands of low-skilled people at $15/hr, no mean feat), but that they have a justifiably high exposure to the press for their workplace practices due to their scale.I think that this is why some middle-management jobsworths think it best to fire activist workers rather than address their issues. It's those managers who should be out of a job now, not Tim Bray. I feel Tim's railings against 21st century capitalism and praise for France for their bare-faced protectionism are misplaced, but understandable under the circumstances.