More than 300 Amazon employees in the United States have agreed not to go to their workplace from Tuesday. Their claims relate to an improvement in sanitary conditions in the warehouses, facing the Covid-19.
It is "the largest mass action of workers to date, as frustrations mount around the failure of the company to protect workers and public health in the face of the epidemic of coronavirus", denounced the grouping of Athena associations. This movement was launched three days before an online strike by coders and engineers from the group.
"Amazon prefers to dodge"
The American online shopping giant has been accused since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic of not enough protecting its employees in the country, but also of having dismissed employees who had led protest movements. The Athena organization reports on 130 warehouses where workers contracted Covid-19, some of which "with more than 30 confirmed cases".
"We have to make an impossible choice every day: to go to an unsafe workplace or risk losing a salary check in the heart of a global recession," said Jaylen Camp, platform employee. Amazon of Romulus, Michigan. "Rather than taking real steps to protect our health, Amazon prefers to dodge, lie and fire people who speak out," he added.
Health measures criticized
Two weeks ago, Amazon announced the distribution of millions of masks and the implementation of temperature controls on all its American and European sites. According to the organization, the implementation of these measures "has been questioned several times by workers in the field".
Warehouses and logistics centers are in high demand due to containment measures designed to stop the spread of the virus. The needs are such that Amazon has undertaken to recruit 175,000 people in the United States.
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