FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 2, 2021

Contact: Chelsea Connor | cconnor@rwdsu.org | 347-866-6259

AMAZON CEO JEFF BEZOS STEPS DOWN STATEMENT FROM RWDSU PRESIDENT STUART APPELBAUM

(NEW YORK, NY) –  Today, it was announced that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will be stepping down from his role at the company and will become executive chairman. Stuart Appelbaum, President of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), which is conducting a unionization drive for the workers at the Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, issued the following statement:

“Jeff Bezos' business model for Amazon was feasting on public subsidies, paying little or no taxes and dehumanizing and mistreating his employees. The appropriate legacy for him should be workers coming together in Bessemer, Alabama and organizing a union and creating change in Amazon's model of employee relations. Bezos's model for treating workers must not become the model for the future of work.”

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 The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) represents 100,000 members throughout the United States. The RWDSU is affiliated with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW). For more information, please visit our website at www.rwdsu.org, Facebook:/RWDSU.UFCW Twitter:@RWDSU.