The fight against Amazon is a fight for our future. Amazon’s corporate greed touches all parts of our existence, from our work to our data to our democracy. Where Amazon goes, other corporations and industries follow. 

Here are just a few examples of how Amazon’s greed impacts all of us:

Our Work

Amazon is notorious for its low pay and dangerous working conditions. At Amazon, workers aren’t managed so much as surveilled, with inhumane, algorithm-driven productivity standards that push workers past capacity. As Amazon workers have told us, the company’s obsession with efficiency denies injured or pregnant workers the basic accommodations they need and deserve, putting them at risk for further injury and pregnancy complications or miscarriage.

In 2021, Jeff Bezos told shareholders that Amazon would become “Earth’s Safest Place to Work,” but instead of working to make its warehouses safer, Amazon treats injuries as the cost of doing business. A U.S. Senate probe discovered that Amazon warehouses recorded over 30 percent more injuries than the warehousing industry average in 2023, and that Amazon manipulates injury data in order to make its warehouses appear safer than they truly are.

In 2025, The New York Times reported that Amazon’s long term plan isn’t to stop treating workers like robots, but to replace hundreds of thousands of them with automation over the next few years, a move that could have serious repercussions for all of us. As one expert interviewed said, “once [Amazon works] out how to do this profitably, it will spread to others, too.”

And when it comes to unions, Amazon’s union-busting tactics are infamous, with the company spending thousands of dollars per day on anti-union consultants, rolling out an Orwellian-level propaganda machine when workers attempt to organize, and refusing to come to the bargaining table with Amazon Labor Union-IBT 1 in New York, the only union to have won an election at a U.S. facility.

Our Democracy

Amazon and its executives have made their allegiances to the Trump administration clear. Amazon donated one million dollars to Trump’s inaugural fund. The company paid $40 million for the rights to the “Melania” documentary, which Amazon CEO Andy Jassy viewed at a private White House screening alongside other billionaires and business leaders just hours after ICE murdered nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos, the Washington Post’s owner and Amazon’s Executive Chair, has gutted the integrity of the paper, ending its longstanding tradition of presidential endorsements and blocking a Harris endorsement just before the 2024 election. In February 2026, the Post laid off a third of its staff, including tech writer Caroline O’Donovan, who covered Amazon and corporate accountability.

Our Data

ICE and the Department of Homeland Security use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to collect and store massive amounts of purchased data on immigrants and their friends and family–everything from biometric data, DMV data, cellphone records, and more. And through its contracts with Palantir, DHS is able to scour regional, local, state, and federal databases, analyze and store this data on AWS. 

The information stored by DHS on AWS is ultimately used to target immigrants and other members of our communities.With tens of millions of dollars in contracts with DHS, Amazon is making bank off of detaining and deporting our loved ones.

And if you saw Amazon’s Ring Superbowl ad, you might be understandably concerned about how a supposed “puppy finding” tool could be repurposed to track people and surveil our neighborhoods, while Amazon and Ring charge us for the privilege.

Our Environment

In 2019, Amazon announced a new initiative it dubbed “The Climate Pledge” and vowed to bring the company to net zero emissions by 2040. The only catch? Investigative reporting found that Amazon is grosslyundercounting its emissions, thereby undercounting what it needs to cut. Amazon was found to be counting only the carbon footprint of Amazon brand label goods, which total just 1% of its sales.

A report from international advocacy group Oceana found that in 2020 alone, Amazon produced 599 million pounds of plastic packaging waste, with 23.5 million pounds of that waste entering and polluting our oceans and waterways.

Packaging isn’t the only waste that Amazon produces. Warehouse shelf space is one of Amazon’s most valuable commodities, but if products aren’t flying off those shelves fast enough they may be removed. Not to charity shops, but to the landfill. Britain’s ITV News reported that at just one UK warehouse, Amazon disposed of millions of unsold items each year, including unused electronics.

Our Money

In 2024, the Washington DC Attorney General filed a lawsuit against Amazon alleging that Amazon covertly removed two DC zip codes from Prime delivery–communities that are primarily Black and already facing systemic inequity. 

The kicker? Amazon never alerted customers in these communities to the change, and continued to charge residents for Prime delivery. The lawsuit estimates that Amazon continued to charge approximately 48,000 Prime members living in the area the full Prime subscription price of $139 per year (in case you’re curious, 48,000 multiplied by $139 is $6,672,000).

While many think of Amazon’s Prime Days as a time to score discounts and save money, Amazon uses Prime Days as an opportunity to manipulate pricing in order to create false urgency and pressure consumers to buy.

According to an investigative report by Popular Information, Amazon creates that urgency and pressure by marking up popular items up a few weeks before Prime and then offering a “Prime Day” discount that brings the price back down to around where it was before the mark up, making it appear that shoppers are saving a lot more.

Amazon is a $2.2 trillion corporation. It made over $77 billion in profits last year, but those profits don’t trickle down to safer working conditions or better environmental practices. Those things, apparently, are even more outlandish than space travel.

As Jeff Bezos said, “the only way that I can see to deploy this much financial resource is by converting my Amazon winnings into space travel.”

We have other ideas–join us in the fight to hold Amazon accountable.