0015.json

{
    "id": 8,
    "date": "2000/11/16",
    "sources": [
        "https://money.cnn.com/2000/11/16/technology/amazon_union/"
    ],
    "actions": [
        "union drive"
    ],
    "struggles": [
        "pay and benefits",
        "working conditions"
    ],
    "employment_types": [
        "inhouse workers"
    ],
    "description": "In one of the first reported unionization attempts at a 'dot com company', an affiliate of the Communication Workers of America known as the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers (WashTech) sought to unionize a group of 400 customer service employees at Amazon. Amazon closed the call center before the campaign could proceed further due to financial pressures following the dot-com bubble in the early 2000s. Amazon has disputed unionization by arguing that the employees are owners of the company since they are given stock options.",
    "online": null,
    "locations": [
        "seattle-washington-usa"
    ],
    "companies": [
        "amazon"
    ],
    "workers": 400,
    "tags": [
        "washtech",
        "cwa"
    ],
    "author": [
        "nataliyaned"
    ],
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    ],
    "addresses": [
        "Amazon, Belltown, Seattle, King County, Washington, United States"
    ]
}