ER Warehouse Reporter

via the Teamsters.   After securing a tax abatement for a new building in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Amazon came back asking the City Council for a second tax abatement on equipment.   Ehren Gerdes from Teamsters Local 414 spoke out about the tax abatement   letting the City Council know that Amazon is not a good investment at their meeting on Tuesday, July 27, 2021.  With a ton of community support, including an article from  The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette’s Editorial Board  calling on the City Council to vote against the abatement and many concerned citizens speaking out at the meeting, the City Council opted to  vote against the tax break with a 5-3-1 vote .  In the lead-up to the City Council vote, Gerdes sent city leaders a fact sheet outlining how the tax abatement, valued at $7.3 million, was a drop in the bucket for a company that made $21 billion in profits last year alone. He emphasized that Amazon’s treatment of its workforce should not be rewarded with a tax break and argued that