NEW: Amazon warehouse workers say the company is notifying them of a rising number of cases among employees. At the same time, the company is relaxing its mask policies and shutting down on-site free testing at the end of the month.
it was on pace to reach 50,000 tests per day across 650 sites with a “world-class laboratory team” to rapidly test workers. Amazon did not require its warehouse employees to get tested.
Other workers said that having free on-site testing was very convenient, especially for people who were working long shifts that can end at odd hours. “The managers aren’t on it like that,” said Jeremy Byron, 38, who works at an Amazon facility outside Toledo, Ohio. “I don’t think they push the rule as much as they should and if they did that would push vaccinations. Before I got vaccinated, I personally would get to my station and I would take my mask off and managers never said nothing.”
“I saw people that found the roll of stickers and started passing them around. Nobody was paying attention. So he grabbed a roll of stickers off of a desk," he said."It’s not really monitored."Amazon has routinely sent out automated emails to employees at its fulfillment centers and other logistics hubs that alert workers of “an individual” who had a confirmed case of Covid.
“We believe that sharing a case count is misleading, and lacks a significant amount of context — like when each individual was last on-site, the overall infection rate in the community where the site is located, community data relative to where the associate lives, timelines since the start of the pandemic and the overall rate compared to other companies,” she said.
The 32-year-old New Yorker sued the company last year over pandemic-related concerns and allegations that the company violated New York laws and federal health guidance. Last year, Amazon won a motion to dismiss, but Palmer and the other plaintiffs’ appeal is pending before a federal appellate court.
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