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Reader mode to dodge the paywall.
TL;DR: So they were paying this town clerk 13,500 a year to work 16 hours a week (but she was working more than that), denied her a two week vacation, causing her to resign and BOOM, no more town services.
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Bring on the wrongful termination lawsuits!
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He’s no Neil Young.
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The Grauniad left out some interesting points, I think.
Amazon investors nuke proposed ethics overhaul and say yes to $212m CEO pay
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While actual voting results haven’t been released yet, Amazon general counsel David Zapolsky told Reuters that stock owners voted down fifteen shareholder resolutions addressing topics including workplace safety, labor organizing, sustainability, and pay fairness. Amazon’s board recommended voting no on all of the proposals.
Jassy and the board scored additional victories in the form of shareholder approval for board appointments, executive compensation and a 20-for-1 stock split. Jassy’s executive compensation package, which is tied to Amazon stock price and mostly delivered as stock awards over a multi-year period, was $212 million in 2021.
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The shareholder proposals requested reports on:
- Whether Amazon’s retirement plans invested in sustainable businesses
- Whether AWS does due diligence to know if cloud customers are using its services in a way that contributes to human rights violations
- Specific uses of Amazon technologies by government agencies that violate privacy and civil rights
- How to change the director nomination process to require the inclusion of hourly workers
- The sustainability of Amazon’s packaging
- Worker health and safety disparities between corporate and hourly employees
- General warehouse working conditions
- Whether Amazon’s use of concealment clauses “in the context of harassment, discrimination and unlawful acts” has created risk for shareholders
- Whether Amazon’s charitable giving lines up with shareholder interests
- Alternative forms of tax reporting
- Whether freedom of association has been violated
- Where Amazon’s lobbying dollars go
- A diversity and equity audit
- Gender/racial pay disparities
Additionally, shareholders proposed adding more candidates than there are board seats to ballots, which was also defeated.
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Thanks for this.
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46 years after the UN proclaimed the right to join a union, Microsoft sort of agrees
On March 23, 1976, a vote of the United Nations General Assembly brought into force the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights – an international agreement that at Article 22 states “Everyone shall have the right to freedom of association with others, including the right to form and join trade unions for the protection of his interests.”
And on June 2, 2022, Microsoft president and vice-chair Brad Smith blogged that the company has adopted four “principles for employee organizing and engagement with labor organizations”, one of which is “We recognize that employees have a legal right to choose whether to form or join a union.”
Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975 so has had 16,872 days to consider the Covenant.
Better late than never, we suppose.
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One of the ways the UN is broken in its current form is how the USA turns up and insists that everyone else ratifies treaties they have a major hand in writing.
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