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Tech billionaires like Bezos must answer: Will they let workers unionize?

Amazon's decision to fire the activists was easy to make in the United States, where Amazon workers have no union and are left to fend for themselves

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Amazon — and the rest of Big Tech — must change. And that includes allowing its workers to unionize.

5 min read Last Updated : Jul 30 2020 | 9:47 AM IST

Covid-19 has created strange bedfellows. Six months ago we, a labor leader and an Amazon vice president, would have been on opposite sides in discussing the future of work at Big Tech in general and Amazon in particular. Then on May 1, one of us, Tim, walked away from a senior role at Amazon Web Services, and potentially millions in compensation, in protest over the firing of workers who spoke out about conditions in the company’s warehouses.

During the pandemic, we’ve seen Big Tech share prices and revenue rocket, while some of Amazon’s warehouse workers say they fear coming to

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