A really disgusting but predictable thing to fall out of this whole fiasco is to watch Obama-era staffers aggressively side with management against labour:
Is it possible that his current role is defining his response more than one he held at least 3 years ago?
Maybe the lesson here is that people who worked in politics/lobbying are not trustworthy and can be a liability to the integrity of your company if you hire them.
Well, if you give them very high paying jobs at weird companies you control through a few layers of obfuscation, it will look even more like you're paying them for services rendered.
This hasn't been true for a few decades. they are now the party of the well educated professional class.
Claiming his current worldview is in any way reflective of the Obama Administration is a reach... at best.
EDIT: Adding that I really can't see, otherwise, how it's relevant.
>“He’s not smart, or articulate, and to the extent the press wants to focus on us versus him, we will be in a much stronger PR position than simply explaining for the umpteenth time how we’re trying to protect workers,” wrote Amazon General Counsel David Zapolsky in notes from the meeting forwarded widely in the company.