FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contact: Jane Chung, press@athenaforall.org Athena Coalition Statement on FTC Announcement of Amazon Lawsuit “Amazon demonstrates the dangers of modern tech platform monopolies. We can and should break up Amazon. Amazon has a long history of combining and utilizing its many businesses together as an integrated…

Amazon workers are leading the way for White House action on the growing threat of worker surveillance and automated management. Coalition worker organizations and allies submitted this statement to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) making the case for aggressive accountability. June 29, 2023 Overview: The…

Re: Solicitation for Public Comments on the Business Practices of Cloud Computing Providers, Document ID FTC-2023–0028–0001 June 21, 2023 Federal Trade Commission 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20580 Dear Commissioners: The undersigned civil society organizations are writing in response to the Federal Trade Commission’s Solicitation for Public Comments on…

Re: Solicitation for Public Comments on Provisions of Franchise Agreements and Franchisor Business Practices, Document ID FTC-2023–0026–0001 June 8, 2023 Federal Trade Commission 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20580 Dear Commissioners: The undersigned civil society organizations are writing in response to the Federal Trade Commission’s Request For Information on…

September 1, 2022 The Honorable Chuck Schumer Majority Leader United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Speaker United States House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 The Honorable Patty Murray Chair, Senate Committee on Health, Labor & Pensions United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Richard Burr Ranking…

Top 6 Amazon #CyberMonday Prime deals. 6. Amazon, the second wealthiest company in the US, bends our local and federal governments to gift itself an astonishing $4.2 billion in public subsidies! Amazon paid an effective 4.3% corporate tax from 2018–2020, including -1.2% in 2018 (yes, negative). Jeff Bezos paid a true tax rate of 0.98% between 2014 and 2018. …

Dear Federal Trade Commissioners, In purchasing smart surveillance devices that record everything we do and say, consumers unknowingly supply Big Tech with endless streams of data. The data collected fuels and solidifies corporate monopolies at the expense of consumers, workers, and communities. The harms caused by this widespread, unregulated corporate…

Amazon injures and discards warehouse workers and delivery drivers at double the industry average. There were a record 24,000 serious injuries at Amazon facilities last year. …

Farhiyo Warsame, a warehouse worker, was targeted, surveilled, and fired by Amazon after speaking up about unsafe conditions at work, according to the Awood Center. Amazon tracked Farhiyo’s time in between each small task and used the accumulated extra seconds to justify threats for her eventual termination. Through this “rate”…