Amazon can be anti-union -most big companies are-, but actively trolling popular politicians on twitter is a really bad look. They should know better than wading into a social media fight with nothing to win.
Unions are a threat to the billionaires, not the company. So this is also to say that Amazon will lie when there is a risk to the bottom line of it's ownership. That is very different than being willing to lie if the company itself is threatened.
In all the time I’ve been tracking virtually everything that AWS says about virtually everything, I’ve never once caught them lying to me. They will decline to answer, or give partial answers. But they have never once said something that wasn’t true. When they requested clarification on my article about Zoom choosing Oracle Cloud, they didn’t disagree with the contents of the article; they cared strongly that we told the full story. That counts for an awful lot.
And later:
I know a lot of folks are rightfully skeptical of “PR” in most cases, and saying that AWS’s folks were somehow different was a sign that I was somehow “too close” to the company.
Maybe that’s true. But I have years of examples and backchannel discussions that PR never knew about to back up the undeniable fact that while there were many times that they didn’t like what I was writing about and hoped I’d change my tone, they never once lied to me in order to achieve that outcome.
And if Amazon cannot be trusted whats left of the Public Cloud that is actually trustworthy, it's not like Microsoft have an great track record of fair and honest dealings either.
That leave basically the smaller 2nd and 3rd tier operators and how much do we really know about their track record for honesty?
I think Amazon (correctly) thinks there isn’t much of a pro-social movement in this country. Trump received the most votes of any sitting US president, in the middle of a raging pandemic without health care. There’s a decent chance this unionization doesn’t go very far, and Amazon will be the only company in their space not exploiting their workers.
Because "words speak louder than actions" or something.
