Lin Manuel-Miranda's father's firm received over $100k to lobby for Amazon

Well-connected lobbying firms are working on Amazon's behalf as workers say the company is seeking to block unionizing efforts.

workers at a second warehouse in New York City set to vote on whether to unionize, a report has revealed that well-connected lobbyists working on Amazon's behalf include a firm co-founded by actor Lin-Manuel Miranda's father.

Amazon and union workers attend a rally outside the company building on April 24, 2022 in the Staten Island borough of New York City."They're calling the cops on labor organizers, including their own workers... Amazon is removing our literature, taking it down, throwing it away," Justine Medina, an ALU organizer at JFK8, told the outlet."They're interfering with our co-workers' ability to talk about the union drive.

Last year, New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Amazon over health and safety violations and its termination of Chris Smalls, a former Amazon warehouse worker who now leads the ALU.

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