Posted on 08/14/2020 4:39:42 PM PDT by Libloather
Amazon is gauging how employees feel about moving away from the company's Seattle campus, largely because of the Covid-19 pandemic and Seattle’s new payroll tax.
Amazon sent an email to workers asking if they’d be willing to work in Seattle’s suburbs and outlying areas, including Redmond and Tacoma. The story was reported by Bloomberg on Friday.
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Amazon employs about 50,000 workers at its Seattle headquarters, which includes more than 40 buildings - including the company’s landmark, greenhouse-like glass Spheres - sprawling across several blocks.
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Amazon has had a rocky relationship with the Seattle City Council since at least 2018 when councilwoman Kshama Sawant proposed a “head tax” on large salaries in the city to pay for homelessness and affordable housing. Sawant called it the “Amazon Tax.”
Later that year, the council initially passed a tax of $275 per employee on Seattle businesses pulling in more than $20 million a year. Amazon halted construction on one of its downtown Seattle towers as debate over that tax intensified, and a backlash against the levy quickly gained strength. The council ultimately backpedaled and voted to repeal the tax in June 2018, less than a month after it was passed.
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Sawant revived her “Tax Amazon” campaign earlier this year and proposals to tax the payrolls of large companies to pay for affordable and green housing were floated in both the city council and in Olympia.
Last month, the Seattle City Council approved a new tax on the city’s largest employers, levying the payrolls of employees making at least $150,000 a year. It’s estimated the tax will raise more than $200 (million) each year.
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We don’t want them here!!
Sorry - you’re right. Bunch of hate filled ‘liberals’. It’s late... I don’t know what I was thinking...
You’re right - we don’t want them in Florida. They should stay in Seattle give comfort to looters or something.
Sawant is a communist from India bend on assuming higher political office. Surely the Joe-Ho administration could find a place for her with all the other members of the RCPUSA
Most of the Kshama Sawant keyword topics:
The council ultimately backpedaled and voted to repeal the tax in June 2018, less than a month after it was passed... Sawant revived her "Tax Amazon" campaign... Last month, the Seattle City Council approved a new tax on the city's largest employers, levying the payrolls of employees making at least $150,000 a year. It’s estimated the tax will raise more than $200 (million) each year.
This seems like one of those rare problems that could be solved with a small number of bullets.
seriously, what's up with these Amish names?
Quite a piece of work, that one. Her latest statement to Amazon in that regard is a chummy "We're coming for you!" Sawant wants to smash capitalism and live high off the takings. They all do.
Amazon thinks it can get money out of the state if it threatens to leave.
Extortion works.
It worked for Nike.
But Amazon is threatening to go to another city - out of the greedy grasp of the nutcases who run City of Seattle. I worked at Amazon a few years ago...transiting through downtown was...shall we say....interesting and I’ve heard it’s way worse now.
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