Amazon has fired two user experience engineers in its Seattle headquarters for “repeatedly violating internal policies” after they criticised the e-commerce giant for its treatment of its warehouse employees amid the coronavirus crisis. Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa were reportedly fired this week after they criticised Amazon’s climate policies and “a lack of safe and sanitary working conditions.
Both have pledged on Twitter to match donations to a campaign by Amazon warehouse staff in New York CityWashington Pos t that the company, headed up by the world’s richest person, Jeff Bezos, had wanted to fire her for some time. “Because of how effective we’ve been in getting Amazon to take leadership in the climate crisis, they’ve wanted me gone for a while.”
Amazon came under fire from New York’s attorney general, Mayor Bill de Blasio and a handful of lawmakers including Sen. Bernie Sanders, after sacking Christian SmallsSmalls worked in the Staten Island warehouse and had been leading walkouts of staff demanding greater coronavirus protections and speaking out, but Amazon claimed that Smalls violated their quarantine policy by returning to the site after he came into contact with someone who later tested positive.
The protests by employees, both online and on the ground, come as dozens of warehouses have reported cases of coronavirus, with workers calling the sites “hubs of infection” and asking the company to establish safe and clean working conditions.
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JeffBezos is turning out to be a real scumbag corporate pig. It's a shame too because Amazon is great for so many things, but it's because of the workers filling orders, driving trucks, answering customer service calls. Not Jeff. And this is after 129m rebate in taxes.