Workers from Amazon, Whole Foods, Target and Instacart are fed up with what they say are inadequate measures from the companies to protect them during the spread of covid.
U.S. workers at a handful of major companies plan to walk off the job Friday, protesting treatment during the outbreak ofWarehouse workers and grocery employees at Amazon and its subsidiary Whole Foods and gig workers for Instacart and Target-owned Shipt are banding together for the protest on May Day, or International Workers Day.
Each of those groups of workers have previously waged individual protests since March, with what companies described as little impact to operations. But Friday is the first time workers classified as essential will combine their efforts.“This is a matter of life or death,” said Christian Smalls, a former Amazon worker who was fired from a Staten Island warehouse in March and who is helping organize the effort. “The virus is killing some of our employees.
Workers at about 25 Amazon warehouses are expected to walk out midday and petition in front of the facilities, Smalls said, and they will often be joined by Instacart, Shipt and other workers. Other Amazon workers are planning to call off their shifts Friday to protest what they see as the company’s lax responses to safety precautions. Smalls said he expects thousands of workers in the U.S. to take part.
Willy Solis, a Shipt organizer in Dallas and an organizer of the May Day protests, said Target, which owns Shipt, is not doing enough. “They said they procured PPE for all shoppers,” he said, referring to protective gear such as masks and gloves. “In reality, only a very small portion of us have received it.”Today's the first day some Instacart workers are receiving their PPE kits and the reactions are priceless
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