Amazon workers are planning to not show up for their jobs this week in an effort to bring attention to their safety concerns.
But Athena says the face masks have been provided only to a fraction of the workforce and are of poor quality. It also said temperature checks easily could be avoided and that workers with fevers reported being sent home without paid time off.
The sickout planned for Friday also is protesting the treatment of warehouse workers, as well as the firings of two tech workers who had criticized the company’s climate policies and workplace safety conditions. One of those workers, Maren Costa, recently addressed Amazon tech workers in an internet forum.
“We want to tell Amazon that we are sick of all this -- sick of the firings, sick of the silencing, sick of pollution, sick of racism, and sick of the climate crisis,” Costa told them, according to a news release from the group Amazon Employees for Climate Justice. “So we’re asking tech workers to join us for a sick out on Friday, April 24 and show Amazon that you do not agree with their actions.
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