Amazon fires two employees critical of warehouse working conditions

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Amazon.com Inc said on Tuesday it terminated two employees, who criticized the working conditions at the e-commerce giant's warehouses in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, for 'repeatedly violating internal policies'.

FILE PHOTO: Signage is seen at an Amazon facility in Bethpage on Long Island in New York, U.S., March 17, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo

The termination of Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa, who worked as user-experience designers in Seattle, came in a couple of weeks after the company fired another employee Christian Smalls for raising health and safety concerns for people laboring through the outbreak. Amazon said it supported “every employee’s right to criticize their employer’s working conditions, but that does not come with blanket immunity against any and all internal policies.”

 

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I DO NOT USE AMAZON! I AM PROUD TO SAY! SHAME ON ANYONE WHO USES AMAZON!!

Unfair dismissal... bring the company to court and sue their asses!

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Sounds like a possible form of discrimination to me... ACLU ACLU_WA your thoughts

Amazon needs to go.

Trump can ALSO fire who he feels is a dissenting voice, a negative influence, not a team player with the vision of the owner.

As they should!

AmazonWarehouse right now!

It was either that, or they get the lash!

I hope they can get their job back and I hope Amazon improves working conditions. It's sad, but America has become dependent on Amazon.

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Amazon is the worst place to work at.

Thats quite damning...... whats Amazon afraid of.

Jeff get's the Guillotine. He knows this right?

This is not news

Don't know, which team to believe regarding this scenario

JeffBezos for Fucks Sake! You have more money than you could ever spend. Please provide PPE and 6 feet bubble for employees to safely work in. And pay them more, a lot more. Not just now but forever. Amazon is not suffering financially so what FLOTUS says-BeBest FLOTUS

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Bit over the top

Somehow, I don't believe Amazon. Those employees probably complained about having to work under unsafe conditions or refused to work under unsafe conditions. The bottom line is the only thing Bezos' cares about.

Fuck Amazon. Buy from small business, buy local!

I hope people spend their stimulus checks at local bricks n mortar stores instead of at Amazon. Support local and tell Bezos where to get off

AmazingBernie Amazon sucks.

Another approach could be to look at procedures & conditions & see if improvements could be made? Was it because of ABC4Corners 🇦🇺?program? Despotic behaviour by employers ‼️

'We have targets course we have'

This helps illustrate why the uaw is seeing growth — voicing safety concerns is protected.

Shouldn't an employee have the right to question the conditions they work in on a daily basis? Voicing one's concerns is NOT a good enough reason for dismissal. Opinion amazon employees COVID2019

That's what happens when you don't have union representation.

No wonder they brainwashed Americans to hate unions... They are free to have no working rights..

Isn't this illegal?

Internal policy is you dont complain about the working conditions

Well if it happened in California I can tell you from personal experience that if Amazon lies, EDD and the labor board could careless. No mechanism to report fraud with EDD and labor flat out tells you that they ignore certain law violations and there is no appeal process.

As is their right! If your more worried about causing panic then doing your job...get a new job!

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Buying stuff on Amazon spreads illness. It did before, it does now.

So what. Employee contracts are “at will.”

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Corporate greed

Surprising low number or not enough accounted for..

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