Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is the
world's worst boss, according to the International Trade Union
Confederation (ITUC).
The trade union announced Friday at its World Congress in
Berlin that Bezos was the "winner" of its first poll of the
World's Worst Bosses at the culmination of the annual ITUC
conference.
"Corporate power is out of control, it is intimidating
governments with threats of capital flight. The greed of the 1%
is of more interest to our governments than the 99%. We decided
we would start exposing some of the elements of the worst boss
phenomena," said ITUC General Secretary Sharan Burrow.
More than 20,000 voted for nine bosses who exemplified the
worst behavior and abuses in workers' rights, tax avoidance, and
corporate bullying and other abuses.
Bezos resoundingly won.
"Jeff Bezos represents the inhumanity of employers who are
promoting the American corporate model. The message to big
business is back off, you are not going to mistreat workers,"
said Burrow.
Along with Bezos, Worst Boss contenders included Wal-Mart's
C. Douglas McMillon, JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, Goldman
Sachs CEO Loyd Blankfein, Koch Industries CEO Charles Koch,
Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-Hee, and Glencore Xstrata CEO Ivan
Glasenberg.
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