We are Amazon employees who want climate leadership. Views ≠ Amazon. Reach out if you're an employee! DM or amazonemployeesclimatejustice@gmail.com
Jan 10, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
🚨🚨 BREAKING: We, 800+ Amazon tech workers, are calling on Amazon to pay climate reparations for company’s contributions to climate change, starting with matching employee donations to help relief efforts for the disastrous Pakistan floods. Here’s our press release 👇
As Pakistani workers, many of us have been disappointed by Amazon’s lack of action over the past several months even after this was brought to the company’s attention, and so now we’re calling publicly for Amazon to take action nbcnews.com/business/corpo…
Apr 17, 2020 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
THREAD/ Our virtual panel event today with warehouse workers and @NaomiAKlein was a hit! Nearly 400 Amazon tech workers tuned in despite Amazon’s efforts to censor us and block access to the event. Here’s our press release about the event: 2/ Amazon colleagues: we want to show Amazon that we will not stand for its attempt to censor our event from inboxes/calendars + the firing of @emahlee & @marencosta - Join our “Sick Out” on 4/24! Pledge to join here ⬇️ forms.gle/fpzTiXt7VhcaBb…
Apr 14, 2020 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
1/ Amazon fired tech workers after we invited employees to an internal virtual event to hear directly from our warehouse coworkers and @NaomiAKlein! Amazon employees: our Thurs event is ON. Since Amazon censored this event, you must RSVP here: forms.gle/F1ecTADMYiU41J…2/ Amazon fired @emahlee & @marencosta, AECJ leaders & long-time employees. AND Amazon DELETED all emails / invites for our internal virtual event w/ our warehouse coworkers. What is Amazon hiding? Why is Amazon so scared of workers talking with each other? AECJ press release:
Mar 27, 2020 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
1/ We are hearing horrifying stories from our coworkers in Amazon warehouses about their working conditions during the pandemic. Amazon is not taking adequate steps to protect its workers, and therefore the public, from #COVID192/ We’re hearing from warehouse workers everywhere. In NYC: “After the second case, amazon didn’t close the building even for one shift. After the third, they closed it for 48 hrs. They still have not implemented proper social distancing procedures..." #nyccovid19
Feb 17, 2020 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Jeff Bezos announced $10bn donation to his Earth Fund this morning. Our statement:
“The international scientific community is very clear: burning the oil in wells that oil companies already have developed means we can’t save our planet from climate catastrophe.
As history has taught us, true visionaries stand up against entrenched systems, often at great cost to themselves. We applaud Jeff Bezos’ philanthropy, but one hand cannot give what the other is taking away.
Jan 2, 2020 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
THREAD/ Jeff Bezos and Amazon executives are threatening to fire a few members of our group after we spoke up about wanting our company to be a leader in the worldwide effort to avert climate catastrophe. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
How will the world remember Jeff Bezos in the era of climate emergency? Will he use his immense economic power to help, or not?Please tell @Amazon and @JeffBezos: Our world is on fire & desperately needs climate leadership. Stop silencing employees who are sounding the alarm. 2/
May 22, 2019 • 14 tweets • 10 min read
"Incremental steps are no longer acceptable in this time of climate emergency," says @emahlee "Almost 7,700 Amazon employees understand that Amazon must have a comprehensive plan that matches the scale and urgency of the climate crisis." @Amazon#AGM#AMZNClimate
"Speed is everything. Without bold, rapid action we will lose our only chance to avoid catastrophic warming. There’s no issue more important to our customers or our world than the climate crisis, and we are falling far short." -@emahlee@Amazon#AGM#AMZNClimate
May 10, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
ISS and Glass Lewis (GL), the two largest proxy advisors to institutional investors, recommend voting YES on our resolution, which asks Amazon to release a company-wide climate change plan with plans for transitioning off fossil fuels! This is huge. 1/7 drive.google.com/file/d/1o5V6pY…
These prominent advisors for institutional investors disagree w/Amazon leadership's stance. GL: Amazon "could be subject to significant risks with respect to both climate change and the regulatory implications or investor pressures that come as a result of climate change.” 2/7