Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Thursday instructed traders the e-commerce big wants a higher “vision” for its staff, simply days after an effort to create the corporate’s first labor union was defeated.
Defending Amazon’s therapy of staff, Bezos laid out a new purpose for the corporate to be “Earth’s best employer and Earth’s safest place to work,” in his remaining letter as chief govt.
“Despite what we’ve accomplished, it’s clear to me that we need a better vision for our employees’ success,” Bezos stated in the letter.
Bezos will stay chairman of the board after he resigns as chief govt later this yr, handing management of Amazon to Andy Jassy of the corporate’s cloud companies unit.
A contentious unionization drive at an Amazon warehouse in the southern US state of Alabama failed final week as a vote depend confirmed a large majority of staff rejecting the transfer.
“Bezos’s admission today demonstrates that what we have been saying about workplace conditions is correct,” stated Stuart Appelbaum, president of the union that vied to characterize Amazon staff.