Amazon Thinks Its Abortion Benefit Will Distract From Its Union-Busting

With Roe v. Wade potentially dead, Amazon is stepping up and falling embarrassingly short—all while ramping up its dystopian union-busting efforts.

paid time off to workers who contract covid. Instead, workers will have five days of unpaid time off to recover from a potentially deadly, highly contagious respiratory disease. That Amazon has timed the announcement of its abortion benefit to coincide with all of these egregious, anti-worker actions is an intentional PR stunt. They’re relying on the public to not understand how reproductive and labor justice are inseparable from each other.

To be clear, abortion access and reproductive justice require living wages and dignified working conditions. “Corporate philanthropy,” like the abortion benefit, is so insidious because many of the societal problems they claim to be solving with their donations and advocacy are actually caused by their own greed, like Amazon’s refusal to offer many of its workers a living wage.

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