Amazon is coming under further fire for its handling of worker conditions. 🔐
Amazon is coming under further fire for its handling of worker conditions and its treatment of employees who have expressed concern amid the coronavirus.
“While Amazon has previously touted the steps they have taken to keep their workers safe, workers at the Staten Island facility claim that they were in short supply of personal protective equipment like disposable gloves and masks — allegedly, associates were limited to two pairs of disposable gloves per week, even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that users throw away gloves after every use,” the senators wrote.
It also comes after a report in Vice based on a leaked internal Amazon memo of a daily executive meeting that included Bezos. In it, Amazon’s general counsel David Zapolsky writes generally of plans to discredit Smalls, noting, “He’s not smart, or articulate, and to the extent the press wants to focus on us versus him, we will be in a much stronger p.r. position than simply explaining for the umpteenth time how we’re trying to protect workers.
“The employee was ordered into quarantine on March 28 and fired on March 30; however, Amazon’s own spokesperson has stated that the diagnosed employee in question last reported for work on March 11th,” the senators wrote.
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