Amazon’s New York Project Foundered on Labor Organizing, Opposition to Subsidies

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Jeff Bezos and his team decided that scuttling Amazon’s New York campus was worth the short-term embarrassment to avoid a yearslong problem

 

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Well done Mr. Besos ! Say hello to your girlfriend

A good decision on the part of Amazon. Based on the political environment in NY I do not understand why they did mot see this happening while they were looking or a location.

Yes the problems that would come from the embarrassment that is Alexandra Ocasio Cortez and the Democratic party of NYC

amazon I applaud the decision of JeffBezos and team. Unbelievable that Mr. de Bla­sio had the nerve to pressure business leaders to accept unioniza­tion going in. Amazon could have been great for the people of Long Island.

NewportLost N.Y. is unstable. I would never trust the activist progressives with that large an investment.

This is text book why the left seeks ever wider control. They had the USSR, an area many times bigger than the USA, they thought if they controlled a big enough area people wouldn’t have any where to escape to. A tiny place like New York and the people simply flee.

This is a free country. Amazon can do what they will if they were not appreciated and our incompetent pols could not get everyone on board. We r not socialist no matter how hard the so called progressives try.

What embarrassment, the embarrassment is on the progressive Dems of NY who cost the city 25,000 jobs don't worry they want the gov to take of us can't wait to stop working and live in this Utopia

There’s no embarrassment; it’s a smart business move Amazon NYCLoses

What embarrassment? Sometimes they look very different in the light of day. Nice save Amazon.

Workers with the help of Trump are getting screwed, up yours Amazon.

No need to be embarrassed.....enough “anti-“ noise by locals and some officials, enough to make Amazon rethink their move......so off to a more welcoming location. Bollicks......

Sure it was all the activism against HQ2 no personal life issues with the CEO

Do you have a plausible theory?

Extreme far-left ideology such as the Amazon opposition in NY would deliver the presidency and congress majority right back into Trump’s and GOP’s hand if the dems choose to go down that path blindly without moderation-it would be tragic and a shame!

That's about it

glad they did - a big FU to those idiot politicians that think running off thousands of good paying tech jobs is a victory somehow!

Good for Bezos

Yea not sure what embarrassment you are referring to. Seems like an embarrassment to make the decision to go there.

I BELIEVE MRS. BEZOS WAS THE SMART ONE WHO TOOK ACTION AS 50% OWNER OF AMAZON!!! BESIDES, HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE A WOMAN SCORNED!!! RIGHT JEFF?

New York had to kiss their asses, not the other way around. Amazon saw them as ingrates. And they said we're out of here. And of course de Blasio and Cuomo who orchestrated this deal are innocent lambs now. Moral: Never look gift horse in the mouth. Google that phrase.

Why would labor unions object to Amazon in New York? Union labor would build it!

He’s right, in the long term he will probably make more money somewhere else

what embarrassment? NY told amazon to shov it. Amazon found a better location and moved out. Amazon won NY lost thanks to AOC saluting punks

Wait a minute. Was he not the hero of the left leaning media just a few days ago?

(Bezos doesn't allow unions at Amazon)

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