Posted on 03/30/2020 10:37:38 PM PDT by aquila48
"Amazon has fired the worker at its Staten Island warehouse who organized a walkout on Monday to demand greater protections from the company amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Chris Smalls, 31, a management assistant at the facility, told The Post he was canned in a phone call following Monday afternoon’s strike.
“They pretty much retaliated against me for speaking out,” said Smalls. “I don’t know how they sleep at night.”
He and dozens of other employees at the Bloomfield warehouse walked off the job to demand Amazon AMZN, +3.36% temporarily close and clean the facility after a worker tested positive for COVID-19 there last week.
They also asked the e-commerce giant to offer paid time-off for folks who feel sick or need to self-quarantine.
An Amazon spokeswoman confirmed Smalls was given the boot, claiming it was because he had violated social distancing guidelines and refused to remain quarantined, as instructed by the company, after he came in contact with an employee who tested positive for the virus.
“Despite that instruction to stay home with pay, he came on site today, March 30, further putting the teams at risk. This is unacceptable and we have terminated his employment as a result of these multiple safety issues,” Kristen Kish said in a statement.
The company also disputed the number of people who participated in the strike, saying only 15 of the 5,000 associates at the site took part.
(Excerpt) Read more at marketwatch.com ...
Side note: Amazon starts them at $17 per hour and pays double time for overtime — $34 per hour.
There’s so many that would take her place on staten island that it wasn’t a smart thing to do.
but when your sign says:
“money come and go” then you’re an idiot moulignon from the obama side of the island and buona notte, sei terminato!
And isn’t a lot of it contract work?
You know the terms when you take the job.
Right now they are hiring in Seattle. With bonus pay comes to $25 hr.
Probably didn’t happen, but I’d hope she recorded the call
“buona notte, sei terminato!”
Or... Ma va a fanculo
Freakin’ moolies!
A fanculo! And the one arm salute.
I guess the workers at Whole Foods threatening a strike better take a second look!!!
Those evil people fired me for not working... No scheisse Sherlock!
Never let a crisis go to waste. They really think that the public is going to back them striking when the public is relying on Amazon to deliver needed supplies while “locked down”
Si, si!
CC
:)
#1. That is one helluva protest. So many protestors that they were out of the wide angle range of the camera.
Just like the good old days. /sarc
#13. I think that the Amazon leaders sleep very well at night. They have their jobs. Chris doesn’t.
My daughter, a mother of 4 children drives an ambulance for 12.00 an hour. She is front line on this. Walmart warehouse employees make more. Bad timing for a strike.
My daughter, a mother of 4 children drives an ambulance for 12.00 an hour. She is front line on this. Walmart warehouse employees make more. Bad timing for a strike.
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Is she a paramedic?
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