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Why Amazon picked a fight with Congress

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Why Amazon picked a fight with Congress

You can't win a debate with your own workforce

Casey Newton
Mar 30, 2021
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Picture of a figure made out of Amazon boxes, standing in the nook of a tree. Daniel Eledut / Unsplash
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One question that came up a lot over the past week, watching Amazon enter the online debate over labor conditions for its warehouse workers and delivery drivers, was — what exactly do these guys think they’re doing?

Today, let’s talk about two theories that explain the company’s increasingly pugnacious public relations campaign, …

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