One of the better-organized reports on labor conditions at an Amazon plant on Staten Island, New York comes from Karen Weise and Noam Scheiber. Their recent report shows the evidence, "Amazon Abruptly Fires Senior Managers Tied to Unionized Warehouse." But it still chokes on the "he said, she said" narrative that newspapers like @nytimes require so much.
Senior managers at Amazon's Staten Island warehouse were fired. Many of them were "responsible for carrying out the company's response," unsuccessfully, to workers unionizing there. They were fired, the company said, because the company is improving "operations and leadership" at the warehouse.
They were fired, the evidence shows, despite the fact that some of the managers had recently received positive employee reviews from Amazon.
They were fired, the evidence also shows, after the union successfully organized and at a time when there were no employee reviews on Amazon's schedule.
Yet, we are told that Amazon's firing these people "were seen by the managers and other people who work at the facility as a response to the victory by the Amazon Labor Union, three of the people said." Really? Three people said that the managers and other workers saw the firings as Amazon's response to a union?
That's what really happened, and your evidence shows it.
Continue to show us the evidence. But spare us the "he said, she said."
BTW: Noam Scheiber's Times bio shows that he used to work at The New Republic. He wrote it straight when he worked there.
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