Amazon Tech Workers Back Demands to Shut Warehouses Over Virus
April 01 2020 - 9:42AM
Dow Jones News
By Dieter Holger
A group of 500 tech workers are backing demands by warehouse
employees to continue to provide paychecks and shutter any
Amazon.com Inc. site if a worker tests positive for Covid-19, the
Amazon Employees for Climate Justice said Wednesday.
Amazon workers receive paid sick leave if they test positive for
Covid-19 but, as the tests aren't readily available, workers who
have symptoms should also qualify for paid leave without a positive
test, the group said.
"Amazon warehouse workers and delivery drivers from around the
world reached out to Amazon Employees for Climate Justice for
corporate worker support," the tech workers said. "Logistics
workers are on the front lines risking their lives now."
The tech employees joined at least 4,500 warehouse workers who
signed a letter dated March 17 to Amazon Chief Executive Jeff
Bezos.
"We want to work in a clean facility. We want to work where we
are [going to] be safe, our kids are [going to] be safe, our
families are going to be safe. How can we be essential workers when
our lives are not essential?" said one worker at a protest outside
an Amazon facility in Chicago on Monday.
Write to Dieter Holger at dieter.holger@wsj.com;
@dieterholger
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
April 01, 2020 09:27 ET (13:27 GMT)
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