As we predicted just last week, the labor rights movement, and the forces of well-organized and start up unions. . . will be duly skeptical of this buy, by Team Bezos.
In any event, here's the latest, from a "peoples' rights" outlet:
. . .On July 21, Amazon announced that the corporation would buy One Medical, a national chain of healthcare clinics and services based in San Francisco, for $3.9 million. In response, unions and labor organizations marched in San Francisco’s Financial District against the deal on July 26. The march was attended by the newly-formed Amazon Labor Union (ALU), with ALU president Chris Smalls leading chants at the helm of the protest, as well as the California Labor Federation, San Francisco Labor Council, ALU, California Nurses Association, Teamsters Local 665, and Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW). . . .
Labor leaders worry that Amazon’s encroachment into healthcare would enable a corporation with a bad user data privacy reputation to access patient medical information. Amber Baur of the United Food and Commercial Workers Western State Council told KTVU, “HIPAA [The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act] protects patient information. . .
But of course, if they opt in for that, there’s ways to use that in marketing, and we know that Amazon cares most about that consumer data. It’s why they’re in all these sectors.”
On July 1, Amazon revealed that it gave footage taken through Ring personal surveillance cameras to law enforcement, without obtaining a warrant. During a House Judiciary Committee hearing in 2020, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos admitted that “[Amazon has] a policy against using seller-specific data to aid our private label business, but I can’t guarantee you that that policy has never been violated.”
While Amazon moves forward with their acquisition of One Medical, more labor action can be expected in the future. . . .
Fascinating that Bezos thinks it a good idea to say. . . hey, we may have violated the law here -- but look the other way. . . because we are a really big company. Just fascinating. Onward, with a grin.
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