Jeff Bezos - Wealthiest In The World

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Amazon Workers Go On Strike Just As CEO Jeff Bezos’ Net Worth Reaches $100 Billion

 

On one of the busiest online shopping days of the year, Black Friday, thousands of Amazon employees decided it was also a good day to walk off the job. Warehouse workers in several distribution centers in Germany and Italy took the day off to demand higher wages and better treatment. In sharp contrast, on the same day, the net worth of Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos hovered around $100 billion, easily making him the wealthiest person on the planet.

According to a report from the New York Daily News, approximately 2,500 German workers demonstrated outside Amazon facilities in the cities of Bad Hersfeld, Leipzig, Rheinberg, Werne, Graben, and Koblenz. In addition to asking for a pay raise, the German union Ver.di says Amazon needs to vastly improve the “work culture” and stop pushing employees too hard.

The Italian Amazon workers that participated in the Black Friday strike said they want “dignified salaries” more in line with their jobs. They gathered outside one distribution center located in Piacenza.

“Work is not a commodity,” said Annamaria Furlan, the secretary general of the union CISL, which represents Amazon employees in Italy, as cited by a TechCrunch report. “The dignity of workers must not be trampled on.”

http://www.domigood.com/2017/11/amazon-workers-go-on-strike-just-as-ceo.html

[umbertino]

 

Son of Cuban immigrants, if I'm not mistaken

[Muleslayer]

2 hours ago, umbertino said:

 

Son of Cuban immigrants, if I'm not mistaken

Relevance?

more power to him.

the American dream!

[FlyHi]

This is false info as the wealthiest person is still Jacob Rothschild but somehow PTB has manipulated the list so he has a measly $4.5B showing yet the family controls $2Trillion more than the combined top 8 wealthiest individuals listed by Bloomberg or Forbes lists

[Shabibilicious]

Seems we'd be splitting hairs when talking about folks with multiple billions at their disposal.  As always, just my opinion.

 

GO RV, then BV

[umbertino]

12 hours ago, Muleslayer said:

Relevance?

more power to him.

the American dream!

 

Sure...More power to him....