Bernie Sanders Slams Jeff Bezos: "Will You Simply Dump These Workers Out on the Street?" [View all]

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"U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), known advocate for workers’ rights and organizer of “Fight the Oligarchy” rallies across the country, is reacting to a report about Amazon getting ready to replace more than half a million jobs with robots.
According to The New York Times, “Amazon’s automation team expects the company can avoid hiring more than 160,000 people in the United States it would otherwise need by 2027.”

That portrait of a retail behemoth with a much smaller employee footprint got a push this week as Amazon announced it would cut 14,000 mostly white collar workers as it transitions into a more AI-centric company. And Reuters reported on Monday that Amazon plans to cut as many as 30,000 jobs, shedding about one in ten of its 350,000 salaried jobs.
Sanders wrote on social media: “Amazon’s plan to replace 600,000 workers with AI and robots could save it $10 billion on top of billions more in tax breaks. Today, I demanded answers from Jeff Bezos: Will you simply dump these workers out on the street, or will you treat them with the dignity they deserve?”
Sanders also railed that “Trump gave Amazon a $16 billion tax break to accelerate its investments this year. Now, Amazon will replace 600,000 workers with robots as Jeff Bezos accelerates his plan to automate warehouses. No. Corporate tax breaks do not trickle down to workers. Never have. Never will.”