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BumRushDaShow

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Tue Apr 1, 2025, 08:48 AM Tuesday

Amazon Spent Nearly $13 Million On Anti-Union Consultants Last Year

Source: Huff Post

Mar 31, 2025, 09:00 PM EDT | Updated 11 hours ago


Amazon spent $12.7 million last year on consultants who specialize in defeating labor organizing campaigns, reflecting the online retailer’s determination to keep unions out of its warehouses and delivery hubs.

Disclosures that Amazon filed with the Labor Department on Monday show the company increased its anti-union spending significantly in 2024 as it faced organizing efforts from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and other groups. Amazon had doled out $3.1 million to such firms in 2023.

Federal law requires employers to disclose how much money they spent the previous year on the services of “persuaders,” or consultants who try to dissuade employees from forming unions. Amazon appears to have become the country’s biggest investor in persuaders ever since warehouse workers in Alabama and New York started organizing four years ago.

Amazon facilities can employ thousands of workers, and disclosure forms have shown the company sometimes brings on more than a dozen consultants to counter a union campaign with one-on-one and group meetings. The company noted on its forms that the spending was “in response to large scale union organizing efforts.”

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/amazon-anti-union-consultants-2024_n_67eb2b9fe4b0d17863f2ff6e

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Amazon Spent Nearly $13 Million On Anti-Union Consultants Last Year (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Tuesday OP
One of the complaints by companies about unions is Dyedinthewoolliberal Tuesday #1
What did they tell Bezo's for $13 million bucks? Just have the workers beat up and shot by thugs Bengus81 Tuesday #2
or open water outlets when et tu Tuesday #3

Dyedinthewoolliberal

(16,040 posts)
1. One of the complaints by companies about unions is
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 08:56 AM
Tuesday

'we can't afford to pay what they want'. But they have at least $12plus million dollars to fight AGAINST unions. So........ ORGANIZE!!!!

Bengus81

(8,532 posts)
2. What did they tell Bezo's for $13 million bucks? Just have the workers beat up and shot by thugs
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 08:57 AM
Tuesday

like Henry Ford did if they get upidty?

et tu

(2,085 posts)
3. or open water outlets when
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 11:38 AM
Tuesday

it's super cold to flood the area
union members were convened to
help organise workers- and it goes on
walmart puts mega bucks into keeping
gender bias wages in effect.
huge corporations aren't worth loyalty
or your business- they are greedy, uncaring
cesspools.

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