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Amazon tech workers are calling in sick! Too many of our warehouse coworkers still don’t have that option. Join us Friday http://bit.ly/amazon-sick-out . Hear from FC workers,
@NaomiAKlein,@billmckibben, fired tech workers@emahlee &@marencosta: We keep each other safe.#AMZNSickOutShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
9/ We, as Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, will continue working w/ our colleagues to call on Amazon to become the leader we know it can be…that the planet needs it to be. If you work at Amazon we hope you’ll contact & join us.
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8/ We still believe Amazon and its employees have an incredible opportunity to lead in these times of crises, both pandemic and climate. Amazon executives must start listening to workers instead of firing them.
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7/ The takeaway is obvious: Amazon will not become the company we know it can & must be for the future of our planet if employees are forced to follow Amazon’s change-suppressing rules for voicing feedback. We employees must join together to make the changes so desperately needed
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6/ On the other hand, Amazon’s Climate Pledge, the Bezos Earth Fund, and improvements to COVID19 safety in the warehouses only happened after employees broke away from internal policies & spoke publicly/walked out about climate change & worker safety, despite Amazon’s retaliation
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5/ If a senior leader, respected throughout the tech industry, is unable to get the company to change even when it is acting unethically, it clearly shows Amazon’s only-use-these-or-be-fired internal feedback channels are intended to stifle change, not to explore it/support it.
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4/ Amazon claims they support workers criticizing their employer’s working conditions, but says this criticism must come through Amazon-designated internal feedback mechanisms and not via organizing. This is how Amazon justifies its firing of AECJ's
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@timbray, a VP and one of less than 16 Distinguished Engineers at Amazon, attempted to voice his concerns using “proper channels” about Amazon’s firing of worker safety & climate whistleblowers. The internal escalations & discussions ended not w/ action but w/ his resignation.Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
2/ Read
@timbray’s blog piece where he talks about what happened and the thoughts behind his decision to leave Amazon following the firing of safe workplace whistleblowers. “I choose neither to serve nor drink that poison.” https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/04/29/Leaving-Amazon …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
1/ We are saddened by the departure of Distinguished Engineer
@timbray, VP at AWS, who quit Amazon b/c he saw a “vein of toxicity running through the company culture” following the firing of warehouse & AECJ leaders calling for safer warehouse working conditions & climate action.pic.twitter.com/o90ayRlduy
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Words of support and solidarity from
@marencosta and@emahlee who were fired for standing with Amazon warehouse workers on#COVID19 safety conditions, and for speaking out about Amazon’s role in the#ClimateCrisis.#MayDayStrikepic.twitter.com/LC83Gwpt8zShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
We stand in solidarity with frontline workers who have been risking their lives to help the world survive a global pandemic.


These workers need & deserve safe working conditions, transparency, fair compensation for their essential work! #MayDayStrikehttps://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7j8zw/amazon-whole-foods-instacart-workers-organize-a-historic-mass-strike …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Thank you
@RepJayapal for advocating for frontline workers, including paid leave, safety measures & hazard pay! “...workers must be able to organize and raise concerns without fear of retaliation.”@amazon—stop firing; start listening to your workers!https://jayapal.house.gov/2020/04/24/jayapal-to-amazon-take-care-of-your-workers/ …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Thank you for your support
@RepJayapal "...extremely concerned by reports that Amazon has fired workers who led efforts to advocate for improved safety & working conditions for their coworkers—Bashir Mohamed, Maren Costa, Emily Cunningham & Chris Smalls…”https://jayapal.house.gov/2020/04/24/jayapal-to-amazon-take-care-of-your-workers/ …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
It’s past time,
@amazon, to stop firing and starting listening to your workers—and to these 73 elected leaders and labor leaders calling on you to "Reinstate the fired workers immediately"!http://mlklabor.org/news/king-county-leaders-call-on-amazon-to-reinstate-fired-workers/ …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
@KCCouncil, & more city council members, thank you for signing:@JoeMcDermottWA@CMUpthegrove@KccClaudia@RDembowski@CMGirmayZahilay@KCCKohlWelles@ryancalkinsSEA@GobenaTakele@marlilar@cmSatwinderKaur@CMPedroOlguin@Burien CM Aragon@CityofTukwila CM Quinn@CynDelostrinosShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
WA Legislature, thank you for signing:
@senjoenguyen Sen Salomon@KarenKeiser1@monadas@votenicolemacri@joefitzgibbon Rep Pellicciotti@RepJesseJohnson@tinaorwall@MiaGregerson33@NoelFrame Rep Santos@RepGerryPollet Rep Valdez@SlatterVandana Rep Codyhttp://mlklabor.org/news/king-county-leaders-call-on-amazon-to-reinstate-fired-workers/ …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
“All workers deserve a safe healthy workplace & compensation that allows them to provide for their families” Thank you
@kcexec & all of@SeattleCouncil:@CMLGonzalez,@CMTMosqueda,@Lisa_Herbold,@CMTammyMorales,@cmkshama, CM Pedersen,@D5Juarez,@CMDanStrauss,@CMAndrewJLewisShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Thank you to the 73 elected leaders & labor leaders for your support: "Amazon has fired employees in New York, Minnesota & here in Washington State for speaking up about workplace safety issues which, in the context of the pandemic, are extremely serious”http://mlklabor.org/news/king-county-leaders-call-on-amazon-to-reinstate-fired-workers/ …
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Do you work at Amazon? We want to hear from you about your
#AMZNSickOut day! We're powerful together. Respond to this survey; show support for fired workers & warehouse workers (you can keep your identity hidden). We want to know you listened in today!https://bit.ly/Amazon-ListenShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
"Courage is not the absence of fear. It’s the feeling of fear and standing up anyway. Today we are transformed. We have overcome our fear. Amazon can fire some of us, but they can’t silence all of us.”
@emhalee &@marencosta - thank YOU for your courage
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