Amazon’s New York Project Foundered on Labor Organizing, Opposition to Subsidies
Amid backlash, talks to resolve differences failed to allay company’s growing unease
Jeff Bezos and other top Amazon executives gathered in Seattle on Wednesday to decide whether to go ahead with its planned headquarters in New York City.
Brian Huseman, vice president for public policy, was on the phone, and the news was not good.
He had met with Andrea Stewart-Cousins, the majority leader in the restive New York Senate,...