Amazon General Counsel David Zapolsky suggested smearing a warehouse worker it fired earlier in the week – who he described as “not smart or articulate” – as part of a strategy in response to bad press and workers’ efforts to unionize, Vice reported on Thursday. The leaked memo is likely to remain in the news for some time, as Amazon encounters more scrutiny about its treatment of warehouse and...
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