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Coalition Responds to NTIA on Data Center Growth Threatening Climate Progress
Public comment to the NTIA on the rapid expansition of big tech's data centers.
Civil society groups tell the White House to prioritize climate and consumers over AI's energy needs.
If this continues, the public will pay higher energy costs, and we will have failed to build the clean energy infrastructure we need.
Civil society groups slam White House roundtable between tech and utility executives and urge inclusion of climate and consumer perspectives.
It’s clear that the meeting gave Big Tech and for-profit energy companies preferential treatment in deciding energy policy.
Press Release: Senate Investigators Find Evidence Amazon Knows its Injury Crisis is Worse than Reported
Statement from the Athena Coalition on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee’s interim report on Amazon’s deadly injury crisis
Congress, it is past time to stop Amazon’s injury crisis
We, the undersigned organizations, urge the Committee to move forward Chair Bernie Sanders’ investigation into Amazon’s health and safety crisis by publishing your findings and recommendations.
Statement on Amazon's General Meeting
Amazon’s annual investor meeting will highlight the ways that Amazon is now fully able to flex its monopoly power to maximize profit for investors across several lines of business.
Amazon Workers File Federal Charge Alleging Invasive Surveillance
Amazon’s surveillance, electronic monitoring, and automated control drive unrelenting work rates and interfere with workers’ right to organize, charge claims.
53 Percent of Amazon Workers Experienced Recent Food Insecurity, New Report Finds
The Center for Urban Economic Development at the University of Illinois Chicago releases results of 1,484-Amazon worker survey about economic security.
Athena Coalition Applauds Federal Safety Legislation to Protect Amazon Warehouse Workers, Drivers
Bill would require employer transparency on quotas and consequences, limiting surveillance, and prohibiting quotas from infringing on workers’ rights to organize.
Fired Google Workers, Including Those Organizing With the No Tech for Apartheid Campaign, File Unfair Labor Practices Charge Against Google for Unlawful Terminations
Google illegally retaliated against and interfered with workers exercising their right to protected concerted activity, charges allege.
Statement from Amazon Workers with the No Tech for Apartheid Campaign in Solidarity with Google Workers Who Were Unjustly Fired
Google has made it clear: anyone who stands in the way of its technology being used in a violent genocide is a threat to its profit margins.
Dozens of NJ Amazon Flex Drivers Rallied Outside Amazon Warehouse to Demand Fair Compensation & Job Safety
Recent incidents, including carjacking, robbery and assault while doing deliveries and dog bites during their routes, further demonstrates that Amazon has failed to protect Flex drivers.
Google Worker Disrupts Google Israel Executive’s Speech During Israeli Tech Surveillance Conference
Demands Company Drop Contract With Israel, Stop Powering Israel’s Genocide of Gaza
Statement on Amazon's Self-Reported Injury Data
Amazon cannot be trusted to keep workers safe, and it cannot be trusted to report its own injury data.
Statement from Google Workers Organizing with the No Tech for Apartheid Campaign on Google's Firings of 20+ Additional Workers
These indiscriminate mass firings come after Google already fired 30 workers for their supposed involvement in last week’s historic, coast-to-coast sit-in at Google offices protesting the company’s $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli government.
Statement from the No Tech for Apartheid Campaign
Both Google and Amazon are directly colluding with the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF).
Statement on Amazon’s Announcement to End Program Allowing Law Enforcement to Request Ring Doorbell Camera Footage from Users Through Its Neighbors App
Amazon was forced to back down on providing warrantless video access to police departments through its Neighbors app.
Statement on Amazon's Lobbying Spending in 2023
Last year, Amazon was one of the single largest corporate lobbying spenders in the United States, spending a whopping $17.8 million to skirt accountability and bend the rules in its favor.
500+ Google Workers and Community Activists Protest Company’s Business Relationship with Israel; Claim 'Google Fuels First AI-Powered Genocide'
Protest Escalates Internal Revolt and Years of Community Opposition to Company’s $1.2 Billion ‘Project Nimbus’ Contract With Israeli Military and Government.
Amazon, Artificial Intelligence, and our Tech Futures
In a comment letter to the Biden-Harris administration, our coalition urges the federal government to consider the example of Amazon as it…
Letter to Senator Schumer on our Tech Futures
Protect workers and center their rights as Congress considers the promise and perils of artificial intelligence.
20+ Groups Tell Congress: Center Worker Rights in AI Policy
Worker groups and civil society sent a letter to Chuck Schumer urging him to address misuses of tech on workers throughout the Senate process.
Press Release: Athena Coalition Statement on FTC Announcement of Amazon Lawsuit
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contact: Jane Chung, press@athenaforall.org
Amazon Labor Union Joins Amazon Tech Workers To Protest Amazon’s Cloud Contracts with Israel at Company’s Annual AWS Summit
Historic protest marks first time Amazon warehouse workers join Amazon tech workers in collective action.
Worker Organizations and Allies Respond to White House Request for Input on Automated Worker…
Amazon workers are leading the way for White House action on the growing threat of worker surveillance and automated management. Coalition…
Civil Society Organizations Respond to FTC’s Request for Information on Cloud Computing Business…
Re: Solicitation for Public Comments on the Business Practices of Cloud Computing Providers, Document ID FTC-2023–0028–0001
Civil Society Organizations Respond to FTC’s Request for Information on Franchise Agreements and…
Re: Solicitation for Public Comments on Provisions of Franchise Agreements and Franchisor Business Practices, Document ID…
The Fight Ahead to Breakup Amazon: 2022 Recap
This Congress has taken significant first steps toward reining in Amazon’s power, setting the foundation for Amazon to be broken up once…
Public Comment on Amazon’s Acquisition of One Medical
The acquisition of One Medical by Amazon could negatively impact the healthcare system of Oregon and is likely to undermine the shared goals of greater access, equity, affordability, and quality of care.
Comments to the FTC on the Risks of Commercial Surveillance
Amazon serves as an example of how unregulated surveillance gives corporations too much power over people, particularly when those corporations have monopoly control over particular sectors, engage in mega-mergers, and have unparalleled surveillance reach across domains.
Letter to Congress: Call In Amazon CEO Andy Jassy to Testify on Warehouse Worker Safety Crisis
Following the tragic deaths of [3 workers in just 3 weeks in New Jersey Amazon facilities last month, as well as 34,000 serious injuries among Amazon workers across the country just last year, we write to strongly urge your committees to exercise your oversight responsibility by convening a public emergency congressional hearing, and asking questions of the individuals responsible for the dangerous labor practices that are causing these injuries and deaths, including Amazon CEO Andy Jassy.
Open Letter to Shareholders: Amazon cannot continue to disregard worker safety and the rights of…
Dear Amazon Directors and Shareholders:
Monitored: How Amazon Undermines the Safety of Workers and Our Communities (Report)
In response to Amazon’s continued inaction, investors, warehouse and tech workers, and community members are making the company’s annual meeting into a referendum on whether Amazon will be allowed to continue to disregard worker safety and the rights of communities of color.
Amazon Cyber Monday Deals Even Amazon Won’t Tell You About
Top 6 Amazon #CyberMonday Prime deals.
Letter to FTC on Corporate Surveillance
The FTC must ban corporate use of facial recognition, continuous surveillance in public and stop industry wide data abuse.
Stop Amazon’s Injury Crisis: End Amazon’s Dangerous and Punitive Worker Surveillance
Amazon injures and discards warehouse workers and delivery drivers at double the industry average. There were a record 24,000 serious…
Put Workers over Profits: End Worker Surveillance
Workers deserve better than models of exploitation developed on plantations and in factories over one hundred years ago.
Silencing of Whistleblowers in the Workplace is a Threat to Public Health
Amazon fires whistleblowers fighting against dangerous workplace conditions that risk exacerbating the spread of COVID-19.