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New Yorkers Can’t Trust Amazon
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
19 Nov 2018
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Amazon, the world’s biggest company, “is not a trustworthy corporation,” said Maritza Silvs-Farrell, of Align, an alliance of labor and community groups that opposes awarding Amazon billions in tax breaks and subsidies to locate a headquarters in New York City. “Its workers are pushed so hard, sometimes they don’t even have time to go to the bathroom,” she said.

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