Amazon, Instacart workers protest over virus safety

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NEW YORK -- Amazon warehouse employees and Instacart delivery shoppers joined protests Monday to press safety demands, highlighting the risks for workers on the front lines of supplying Americans larg

ely sheltering at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Amazon, responding to an AFP query, said Smalls made "misleading" statements about conditions and that he was supposed to be on quarantine. It was not immediately clear how many of Instacart "shoppers" who are independent "gig" workers, were participating in the stoppage. A separate group of workers at the Amazon-owned grocery chain Whole Foods meanwhile called for a one-day stoppage or "sickout" on Tuesday to press demands for improved health measures.

 

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