引用：Amazon.com
今回のボイコットの主催者発表によると、火曜日から開始したボイコットに参加を署名した従業員は、全米40か所のフルフィルメントセンターで働く従業員350名以上にものぼっている。現在の職場環境ではコロナウィルス感染対策が不十分であり、感染対策を強化するか休業補償を認めるようアマゾンに要求しています。
この件に関しては、アマゾンはコロナウィルスの感染対策には万全を期しており、告発は事実無根であると表明。また通常通り就業する、全米40万人にのぼる正社員・アルバイトは英雄であると称えました。
今月に入ってEssential Productsの入荷・発送の優先が発表され、私たちのクライアント様の中には、受注したオーダーの発送保留が300件以上も溜まり、もっとも古い注文は5週間前という状況の方もおられます。影響を受けているのは私たちも同じです。今後もいち早くアマゾンの動向をお知らせいたします。
Amazon warehouse workers are staging a nationwide protest against the company, an action that could be the largest yet targeting Amazon’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
According to organizers, more than 350 workers from about 40 warehouses across the country have signed a pledge to call off work this week, starting Tuesday. The workers say Amazon’s measures to protect them against the coronavirus or provide them with paid sick leave have so far fallen short.
Amazon, in a statement, maintained that the accusations are unfounded and that it has taken “extreme measures to keep people safe.” The company pointed out that it employs 400,000 part-time and full-time workers in the U.S., “the vast majority [of whom] continue to show up and do the heroic work.”
Tuesday’s protest is the latest wave of action by Amazon warehouse workers, some of whom have previously staged walkouts in New York, Illinois and Michigan. Some corporate Amazon employees are planning their own virtual walkout on Friday, in solidarity with warehouse colleagues and to protest the company’s recent firing of several activist workers.
Amazon warehouse workers’ demands have been wide-reaching. Some say the retailer should shut down facilities where staff have tested positive for COVID-19. Others point out that many workers still don’t receive masks the company promised and that they are worried their coworkers can easily evade the instituted temperature checks. Some warehouse staff want Amazon to ease or eliminate speed quotas to allow more time for hand-washing and other breaks.
One central demand is better access to paid leave. Amazon has extended unlimited unpaid leave for all hourly workers and paid leave for those who are diagnosed with COVID-19 or get placed in quarantine by the company. But some workers have said they’ve struggled to receive pay after being sent home with a fever.
More than 130 Amazon warehouses have had confirmed coronavirus cases, according to the worker advocacy groups that have helped organize Amazon employees. The groups include Athena coalition, which is focused on Amazon, and United for Respect, which is focused on retail workers.
“Like all businesses grappling with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, we are working hard to keep employees safe while serving communities and the most vulnerable,” Amazon spokeswoman Rachael Lighty said in a statement. “We have taken extreme measures to keep people safe, tripling down on deep cleaning, procuring safety supplies that are available, and changing processes to ensure those in our buildings are keeping safe distances.”
Amazon is hiring about 175,000 workers during the coronavirus pandemic and has temporarily increased its pay by $2 per hour.
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