Amazon threatens workers who say Bezos should not be in fossil fuel

Latest

Amazon workers wage a fight for the company to stop taking money from fossil fuel companies and contribute to saving the planet, but the company threatens retaliation against employees.
Photo/twitter

 
Editor’s note: This story is from tweets by Amazon Employees For Climate
We’re a group of Amazon employees who believe it’s our responsibility to ensure our business models don’t contribute to the climate crisis.
Jeff Bezos and Amazon executives are threatening to fire a few members of our group after we spoke up about wanting our company to be a leader in the worldwide effort to avert climate catastrophe.
How will the world remember Jeff Bezos in the era of climate emergency? Will he use his immense economic power to help, or not? Please tell @Amazon and @jeffBezos: Our world is on fire and desperately needs climate leadership. Stop silencing employees who are sounding the alarm.
We started organizing because we knew our company could and must do better. Amazon and now Microsoft’s climate announcement [to radically reduce its companies carbon emissions] came only “after” employees began organizing and pushing their companies to stop contributing to climate change.
Like Amazon, Microsoft leadership has no plan to stop taking money from fossil fuel companies to help them find and extract, faster and with lower costs, more fossil fuels from our planet. This fact undermines much of the public goodwill of these climate announcements. When a reporter asked Bezos if he would be canceling his company’s contracts with the oil and gas industry, his response was a simple: “No.”
It’s clear that our work as employees pushing our companies to prioritize our children’s and grandchildren’s future over environmentally destructive short-term profit is not over. We must and we will keep standing up and speaking on behalf of our beautiful planet!

+ Articles by this author

Free to republish but please credit the People's Tribune. Visit us at www.peoplestribune.org, email peoplestribune@gmail.com, or call 773-486-3551.

The People’s Tribune brings you articles written by individuals or organizations, along with our own reporting. Bylined articles reflect the views of the authors. Unsigned articles reflect the views of the editorial board. Please credit the source when sharing: ©2024 peoplestribune.org. Please donate to help us keep bringing you voices of the movement. Click here. We’re all volunteer, no paid staff.

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here

Featured

Students Walk Out Across the Country to Protest Trump’s Election

Read the speech delivered by a student at the student walkout at MSU two days after the Presidential election. Thousands of students nationwide walked out to protest Donald Trump's election and his policies on the same day.

Let’s Join Hands to Resist the Trump Agenda

Thousands of groups and millions of people are beginning to reach out to one another to resist the Trump agenda. Regardless of who we voted for, we the people, have a common interest in seeing to it that all our families are well taken care of, that all children are well educated and have a future, and that we have a society free of climate disaster, racism, bigotry and inequality.

How Democrats Ignoring Gaza Brought Down Their Party

"Many Americans roused to action by their government’s complicity in Gaza’s destruction have no personal connection to Palestine or Israel. Their motive is not ethnic or religious. It is moral."

Undocumented Families Are Fighting for Our Future. Will You Join Us?

'As an undocumented mother, I can’t help but worry for my son’s safety first. As an organizer, my worry turns to resolve.'

Fighting for Climate, Students Walk Out Over Trump

"[The student nationwide] walkouts represent a call to action for both parties," said Sunrise Youth Movement, a group that advocates for political action on climate change.

More from the People's Tribune