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Bernie Sanders invites Jeff Bezos to hearing on wealth inequality
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IANS | 13 Mar, 2021
US Senator Bernie Sanders has invited Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos to a hearing next week on income and wealth inequality.
"I
have invited Jeff Bezos to testify in the Budget Committee next week to
explain to the American people why he thinks it's appropriate for him
to spend a whole lot of money denying economic dignity to workers at
Amazon, while he has become $78 billion richer during the pandemic,"
Sanders tweeted.
The Amazon CEO, however, turned down the offer to attend the hearing slated for March 17, CNBC reported on Friday.
Amazon,
which has seen its sales growing dramatically during the pandemic as
people rushed to get their supplies through online services due to the
Covid-19 restrictions, has faced criticism from several quarters for
allegedly not putting in place enough measures to protect its warehouse
workers.
Sanders, who is the Chairman of the Senate Budget
Committee, was among those who criticised the online retail giant for
ending hazard pay for frontline workers and other labour practices
during the pandemic.
He previously drew attention to the
disparity in pay between top executives of the company and those who
carry out the packing and delivery of the packages.
As other
labour advocates also demanded higher wages for Amazon workers, the
company in 2018 raised minimum wage to $15 an hour in the US.
The
Senate hearing, titled "The Income and Wealth Inequality Crisis in
America," will also include testimony from Jennifer Bates, a worker from
Amazon's warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama where employees are making
unionisation efforts, said the CNBC report.
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