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Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk vs. American workers

The biggest robber barons of this Second Gilded Age are trying to end the freedom of workers to unionize

Robert Reich
Feb 27, 2024
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Friends,

I never believed Jeff Bezos, the second-richest person in America (worth an estimated $114 billion), and Elon Musk, the richest (at $180 billion), would brazenly use their wealth and power to try to eliminate labor unions and thereby suppress the wages of American workers even further.

In my naivete, I assumed they wouldn’t reveal themselves as n…

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