Amazon Can Afford to Treat Workers Better, Union Organizer Tells Senators

Aerial view of the Amazon facility where workers will vote on whether to unionize, in Bessemer, Ala., on March 5, 2021. Dustin Chambers/Reuters

An Amazon warehouse employee in Alabama who is seeking to convince her co-workers to unionize told senators on March 17 that the company can afford to treat its workers better.

“Amazon brags it pays workers above the minimum wage. What they don’t tell you is what those jobs are really like. And they certainly don’t tell you that they can afford to do much better for the workers,” Jennifer Bates told the Senate Budget Committee in Washington.