Alan Bates is wrong about Amazon
Alan Bates, a leading campaigner on behalf of over 500 fellow sub-postmasters who were wrongly blamed, and convicted, for problems caused by cash-handling software, has called for the Post Office to be handed over to Amazon. Bates and other victims are right to be angry at the Post Office bosses’ venality and incompetence. But ownership by Amazon would make things worse, not better. As the ongoing strikes in Amazon’s BHX4 warehouse in Coventry show, Amazon’s treatment of its own workers has little to recommend it. Amazon resists the union recognition which would allow its workers to assert...