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Stuart Applebaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), on Thursday said that Amazons claims that it is a progressive workplace are outrageous and tone deaf.

Hill.TVs Rising host Saagar Enjeti asked Applebaum what he made of a recent public spat between Rep. Mark PocanMark William PocanBattle heats up over Pentagon spending plans Overnight Defense: 50 House Democrats urge Biden to 'significantly' slash defense budget | Blinken, Austin put China on warning | Pentagon could extend Guard mission at border 50 House Democrats urge Biden to 'significantly' slash defense budget MORE (D-Ill.) and the Amazon News Twitter account.

The online squabble was sparked when Amazon's CEO of Worldwide Consumer Dave Clark tweeted, I often say we are the Bernie SandersBernie SandersOvernight Health Care: Senate confirms Levine for HHS, first openly transgender official | Progressives up pressure on Biden to back COVID vaccine patent waiver | Former Operation Warp Speed chief fired over sexual harassment allegations Briahna Joy Gray: Progressives 'covering for the failures of the Biden administration' on minimum wage The Hill's Morning Report - Biden leans heavily into gun control MORE of employers, but thats not quite right because we actually deliver a progressive workplace."

It's so outrageous, it's nonsense and it demonstrates how tone deaf Amazon is about what their own employees feel and think, Applebaum said. What Amazon is saying is, If we give people a $15 wage that gives us license to treat them any way we want to to disregard their health and safety to dehumanize them.

Applebaum argued that Amazon could not call itself a progressive workplace when taking into account its extraordinarily high turnover rate.

[Workers are] saying we can't take it no matter how much you pay us, he added.And let me also point out about pay ... that what Amazon pays is less than the median wage in Alabama, It's less than what workers get at other warehouses represented by the RWDSU in Alabama."

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