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ASM YUH-LINE NIOU, ILLEGALLY FIRED STATEN ISLAND AMAZON WORKERS, ACTIVISTS PROTEST CORPORATE GREED, RECORD PRICE GOUGING IN NYC

On Friday, NYS Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou, Alicia Johnson – an illegally fired Staten Island Amazon worker, Mat Cusick – an Amazon Labor Union (ALU) worker and organizer unjustly fired in retaliation by Amazon after ALU’s historic victory at its Staten Island warehouse – Maritza Silva-Farrell, Executive Director at ALIGN and a lead partner for Unrig Our Economy NYC, and other invited local officials, and activists gathered in the financial district for a Corporate Greed Day of Action.

Our Economy is Rigged Against the Middle Class: Congressional Republicans Enable Greedy Corporations to Exploit Working People

Throughout the pandemic, hardworking New Yorkers have been slammed by the rising costs of everything from gas prices to groceries to rent and everything in between. Equally outrageous is that during that time, big corporations made astronomical profits as consumers got gouged. None of this happened by accident. Corporations were handed unprecedented power by Republicans in Washington to essentially rig our economy to get bigger and bigger and richer and richer. Thanks to the support of Congressional Republicans, corporations benefit from a tax code that leaves massive corporations paying less than the average, hardworking American. They’ve changed the rules to take bargaining power away from working people and keep wages from going up. They’ve also empowered greedy corporations to hike prices to make even bigger profits. 

The Public Blames Corporate Greed for Price Increases; Strongly Backs Policies to Address Corporate Profiteering Head-on

Although corporations – and their Republican enablers in Congress – try to blame high prices on inflation and supply chain issues, corporate profits are the highest they’ve been in 50 years. The American people get it – corporate greed is at play through pandemic and war profiteering. The public is likewise fed up with corporations manipulating the rules of our economy to enrich and empower themselves at our expense. Corporate execs are admitting it themselves on earnings calls — they’ve been exploiting the pandemic and using the guise of inflation to raise prices faster and higher than necessary.