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We looked at Amazon's response to the coronavirus outbreak over the last month. Here's what @KYWeise and I found:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/technology/coronavirus-amazon-workers.html …
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As demand for shipped products skyrocketed, the response in warehouses was haphazard. Some workers got sanitizing wipes at their stations, while others couldn't even find paper towels in their bathrooms. Some were told to stay 3 ft apart based on early CDC guidance, others 6 ft.
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Covid cases appeared in 50+ warehouses. Amazon didn't want to tell workers, in part because one of their earliest cases, a presumptive positive, turned out to be a false alarm. Word of positive cases spread through workplace organizers & rumors, sewing distrust w/ management.
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Promised quarantine pay is largely inaccessible. A worker in Queens told me he tested positive March 18. Amazon assigned him a case manager, who never called him back. After I asked Amazon about his case, PR said a check would be mailed that day.
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@pblest dropped a great scoop about Amazon's general counsel trash-talking a warehouse labor organizer. Eventually we matched it. In his email, the GC also talked about testing & masks, and celebrated Carney tweeting back at Bernie Sanders' labor concerns within a half-hour.Diesen Thread anzeigen -
I should also say we're continuing to report on all of this, so Amazon folks: please send tips to
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