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Maren Costa is a prominent American advocate for climate justice, workers’ rights, and corporate responsibility, best known for co-founding Amazon Employees For Climate Justice and being illegally terminated by Amazon for so-called "policy violations" tied to her activism.
Smalls joined Amazon in 2015 as a picker in New Jersey. [13] [12] [3] He transferred briefly to a warehouse in Connecticut, where he was fired and reinstated after an appeal.[3] [12] He was transferred to the Staten Island warehouse (JFK8) when it opened in 2018, and worked as an assistant manager.
Amazon said that the Staten Island protest only attracted 15 of the facility's 5,000 workers, [308] but other sources reported much larger crowds. [307] On April 14, 2020, two Amazon employees were fired for "repeatedly violating internal policies" after they circulated an internal petition about health risks for warehouse workers. [309]
Amazon is suing a Washington state agency to prevent the release of some company materials to The Washington Post, the newspaper which is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. In a lawsuit filed ...
It isn't clear from any of the official reports on Jeff’s death—Amazon's, the county's or the state's—how quickly Jeff was found and treated. The Amazon report says that he was discovered at “approximately 2:30 a.m., which is within one minute of his last reported pick.” Yet according to a county EMS report, the 911 call came in at 2: ...
Amazon has agreed to pay nearly $4 million to settle charges that the e-commerce company subsidized its labor costs by taking tips its delivery drivers received from customers, District of ...
Amazon.com was sued on Wednesday by consumers who accused the retailing giant of secretly tracking their movements through their cellphones, and selling data it collects. According to a proposed ...
The Amazon Labor Union was founded on April 20, 2021, by a labor-activist group founded by Chris Smalls called The Congress of Essential Workers (TCOEW). Smalls, along with Derrick Palmer, had organized a walkout at the JFK8 facility to protest Amazon's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, which had led to the firing of Smalls.