Amnesty International calls on Jeff Bezos to address Amazon employees’ concerns about working conditions by AngelAuYeung
on how the company is handling working conditions during the pandemic — including temporarily increasing wages by $2 per hour and implementing new safety measures such as temperature checks at select sites and personal protective equipment for workers — the protesters want more changes. Their demands include more transparency in the company’s COVID-19 reporting, making the pandemic wage increase and additional paid breaks permanent, and annual paid sick leave.
“For the first time since my working life, it’s just become obvious who keeps this society running,” said an Amazon warehouse and logistics employee from Poland on the live stream. “It’s us, the logistic workers, the retail workers, the healthcare workers… If it were not for us, this society would fall apart.”
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