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In reply to the discussion: After protest, Amazon workers finally get AC (some work in 110 degree temps for $11/hr) [View all]suffragette
(12,232 posts)Once I found the above, I looked around more and many companies have been going in this direction. Posted below on that.
It's possible to create better systems that benefit everyone. Some companies are going to be leaders in that and some like Amazon need the poke in the ribs to prod them in that direction. Unsurprisingly Amazon does little in the way of philanthropy for local communities and had to be similarly prodded to leave ALEC.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/05/24/489934/amazoncom-becomes-the-eighteenth-group-to-drop-alec/
According to an email ThinkProgress received from the Center for Media and Democracy, one of the leaders of a progressive campaign to push corporations and other funders to break with the American Legislative Exchange Council, online retail giant Amazon.com just announced that it will part ways with ALEC. In the wake of this campaign, ALEC eliminated a task force that pushed voter suppression laws and the so-called Stand Your Ground laws that played a significant role in the aftermath of the Trayvon Martin shooting, but the conservative group remains committed to other priorities such as repealing minimum wage laws, eliminating capital gains and estate taxes, and blocking safeguards that protect children from eating rat poison.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2017883663_amazonmain25.html
Amazon a virtual no-show in hometown philanthropy
The world's biggest online retailer is a minor player at best in local charitable giving.