Amazon removes 'equity for Black people' and 'LGBTQ+ rights' from company policies
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The Advocate - Ryan Adamczeski
January 13 2025 1:00 PM EST
Amazon has quietly removed several policies from its public websites aimed at protecting workers, including "solidarity" pledges with its Black employees and health care benefits for transgender workers.
The changes include several to policy, as well as department titles. A section previously called "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" is now "Inclusive Experiences and Technology," and the section "advance DEI through technology" is now a pledge to "advance the employee experience."
One of the removed policies includes an outline of the gender-affirming care benefits provided to employees under Amazon's health care plan, which it said were "based on the Standards of Care published by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)." Also removed was the company's pledge that it is "working at the U.S. federal and state level on legislation" that would provide anti-discrimination protections for transgender people.
Though Amazon previously stated that it stood "in solidarity" with its Black employees, the company also removed that section, as well as one claiming to support "legislation to combat misconduct and racial bias in policing, efforts to protect and expand voting rights, and initiatives that provide better health and educational outcomes for Black people."
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Those policies meant nothing to begin with. It was pandering to us when Biden was in office as much as it is pandering to Trump by removing it.
I don't think Amazon would have honored the pledge. It's doubly bad that on top of it they removed target health care for us. Screw them.
Look at how Amazon runs its business. It's not like the delivery service from Amazon treats its people good. They set it up to put all the risk and expense on the employee oh I mean contractor and pay them next to nothing while working them long hours.
We are literally sliding back into the days of the jungle before labor unions won us weekends and paid time off.
I try like heck not to use Amazon at all.