We urge your committees to exercise oversight responsibility by convening a public emergency congressional hearing, asking questions of the individuals responsible for the dangerous labor practices that are causing these injuries and deaths, including Amazon CEO @ajassy.
Just now: They are part of 160 @IEAmazonWorkers workers in work stoppage and walk out from @Amazon's gigantic air hub holding up the western region of their logistics!
@ieamazonworkers@amazon As the very first coordinated action from an Amazon air facility, this action boldly escalates the fight for demands @Amazon workers are making across the country:
✊🏽 fair pay
✊🏿 safe, healthy workplace
✊🏻 end to retaliation for unions
We are among 48 civil rights groups calling on FTC to exercise their authority to ban corp use of facial surveillance tech, continuous surveillance in places of public accommodation, and end industry wide data abuse
Smart surveillance devices are filling our homes, workplaces, and neighborhoods. Consumers unknowingly supply records of everything we do and say with no oversight to prevent danger. And no accountability after harm occurs.
A thread of things Amazon does that would be rejected from writing rooms!
1) Amazon sought to hire former military intelligence to spy on workers organizing unions, communities opposing them and us!
2) In the middle of the #BlackLivesMatter uprisings, they used BLM for promotion while firing workers asking for COVID safety. All those fired were Black.
3) When workers asked for time off during Juneteenth, an Amazon facility responded with free fried chicken and waffles.
Today, Jeff Bezos has decided to head for the exits rather than face the music.
A thread. (1/x)
In response to @JeffBezos stepping down as Amazon CEO for Andy Jassy, the head of Amazon Web Services, the @athenaforall coalition released the following statement from Maurice BP-Weeks @mo87mo87, an Athena leader and the Co-Exec Director of member group @ACREcampaigns. (2/x)
"The company Jeff Bezos started nearly three decades ago is under a cloud of scrutiny, with regulators from both sides of the aisle firing arrows from Washington, D.C. and lawmakers asking hard questions in states across the country." (3/x) #BreakUpAmazon#MonopolyIsNoGame
Farhiyo Warsame, an Amazon warehouse worker, was targeted, surveilled, and fired by @Amazon after speaking up about unsafe conditions at work, according to Athena member, the @AwoodMpls Center.
Amazon tracked Farhiyo Warsame's time in between each small task and used the accumulated extra seconds to justify threats for her eventual termination.