Friend,
It’s Tax Day, and guess who’s not paying their fair share in taxes?
Billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk have seen their wealth grow by ridiculous amounts during the pandemic, and yet are paying little to nothing in federal income taxes. Bezos is now worth $190 billion, seeing a $77 billion increase in his wealth in the last two years while Musk has seen his wealth grow by an eye-popping $266 billion.1
As these billionaires see their personal wealth grow, their corporations (Amazon and Tesla) have been busy union-busting:
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Rashida Tlaib
@RashidaTlaib
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.@amazon is being loud and clear about the value they hold for the workers that help them amass a fortune. It's time for Amazon workers to take stock and force them to realize their value.
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Join me in fighting back against corporate union-busting. Sign the petition in solidarity with workers seeking to unionize at Amazon and beyond for better wages and safer working conditions.
This month, Amazon warehouse workers on Staten Island made history by forming the first Amazon Labor Union. But they did so in the face of relentless union-busting.
In an attempt to intimidate and harass workers, Amazon had labor organizers arrested for serving food to workers. And a recent New York Times investigate report titled “How Amazon Crushes Unions,” exposed Amazon’s multi-year anti-union tactics and illegal behavior.2
The National Labor Relations Board even issued a new union election for Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama after the NLRB ruled that Amazon had illegally interfered in last year’s union election.3
At Tesla, CEO Elon Musk was forced to take down anti-union tweets, which the NLRB ruled as illegally coercive. The National Labor Relations Board also ruled that Tesla illegally fired an employee involved in union organizing.4
Click here and sign to stand in solidarity with workers across the country seeking to unionize for fair pay and benefits.
We will not stand by as billion-dollar corporations trample on the rights of their employees.
In solidarity,
Rashida
1 https://americansfortaxfairness.org/issue/tax-day-americas-working-families-paying-fair-share-americas-billionaires-not/
2 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/technology/amazon-unions-virginia.html
3 https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-faces-second-union-vote-bessemer-alabama-warehouse-workers-nlrb-2022-1
4 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/business/musk-labor-board.html
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