Labor Group Demands Felony Charges Against Amazon for Opposing Seattle’s Job Tax
10th May 2018
Seattle’s city council is considering a 26-cent tax on every hour of employee work at companies grossing more than $20 million a year. The proposal, which is scheduled for a vote on Monday, prompted one of the city’s largest private employers, Amazon, to pause construction on a new office tower. The move was in character for a corporate giant known to play hardball with municipalities, for good and ill. But according to the union-backed group Working Washington, Amazon’s reaction is not just irritating; it’s felonious.
The construction pause is “the sort of thing you might expect from a subprime mob boss lording it over a company town—and that’s not just a metaphor,” says an open letter from the group to Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson. Working Washington claims “there is abundant evidence” that Amazon has broken a state law criminalizing threats against public officials aimed at affecting their votes or decisions. “We urge you to investigate and prosecute Amazon for this serious crime,” the group says.
This is the problem with all those low-IQ people going to law school. A lot of them don’t listen in class.