A Washington Post staff writer penned an op-ed for HuffPost on Friday in which he attacked his paper’s owner, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, for treating his employees “poorly.”
“Jeff Bezos Wants to Give More Money to Charity. He Should Pay His Workers First,” wrote Fredrick Kunkle, who also serves as co-chair of the Washington-Baltimore News Guild’s bargaining unit at the Post.
Kunkle noted how the Amazon CEO sent out an appeal to his Twitter followers in June, asking how he should spend his fortune on philanthropic causes.
“But he’s still taking from the very people who helped him build his fortune,” Kunkle said.
“Amazon’s history of dodging taxes, its mistreatment of workers, and its ruthlessness toward even the smallest competitors have been well documented,” Kunkle continued. “It put ambulances outside distribution centers rather than install adequate air conditioning. It broke up a union organizing effort by closing the call center and dismissing everyone who worked there.”
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