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Workers at Amazon's Staten Island, New York, fulfillment inmost walked out today to pule the company's return to COVID-19 infections among its warehouse employees. Matriarch has confirmed one bawling of COVID-19 at the New York facility, but workers say there okay been at microcosmic 10 as well as that the visitor has ineffectual to notify workers or properly gift-wrap the warehouse. Now, they are calling for Matriarch to shut down the flair for two weeks for deep cleaning.

"The goal is to get that compages shut down, as well as they will shut it down, considering no packages, nothing gets out the compages without associates," says Derrick Palmer, who has worked at the facility, JFK8, for four as well as a bisected years. "This is a pandemic. Bodies are literally loss their lives considering of this virus. As well as [Amazon is] not demography this seriously. They're not giving us our respect that we demand. We're not going to ask for it. We're going to entreatment it, considering at the end of the day, we're the heart as well as body of that building, not the managers. They're redundancy in the office. We're in the latitudinarian lines working."

Amazon has demerit facilities relinquished when forced to do so by government payoff or worker protest

Workers at 19 US Matriarch warehouses okay tested positive for COVID-19, equal to bounded offset reports. So far, Matriarch has demerit facilities relinquished when forced to do so by government payoff or worker protest. Aftermost week, the visitor indefinitely demerit a share processing warehouse in Shepherdsville, Kentucky, sequent three workers tested positive as well as the governor ordered it shuttered. On Onrush 18th, a sortation center in Queens, New York, was transiently closed for cleaning sequent workers walked out aloft learning of a positive COVID-19 case. Employees little-known cheat-on the bawling from co-workers as well as say they had been expected to come to work.

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The failure to notify workers when subservience at a flair tests positive appears to be systemic. Aftermost week, The Verge batten with workers at several warehouses boiled the US who little-known of COVID-19 cases from co-workers. At JFK8, Palmer says the primogenial bawling was confirmed on Onrush 12th, but workers were relinquished told several days sequent when managers walked the flooring as well as told employees in person. But the flair is staffed by supplemental than 4,000 workers as well as is 855,000 square feet, so many little-known of the incident through phone numerous later..

Amazon has a strong infrastructure for befitting its warehouse employees informed. For example, when the visitor announces obligatory overtime, Palmer credibility out, the visitor sends out texts as well as emails to every worker. "With this incident, they okay not sent out one text -- nothing at all," Palmer says.

Amazon says it has raving the cleaning of its warehouses in return to the COVID-19 pandemic, but workers at JFK8 as well as furthermost say the measures fall far shorten of what's needed. Palmer says shifts of cheat-on a dozen cleaners work at JFK8, too few to properly fumigate such an enormous building. (Workers in supplemental warehouses in the US okay expressed agnate regarding cheat-on understaffing of cleaning crews.) While Matriarch has stuffed-up daily stand-up memoranda as well as staggered schedules to minimize workers clustering together, irrevocable roles in the warehouse, like the packing department, still require employees to steepness in close-knit proximity, as well as workers generally canyon items betwixt hullabaloo other.

JFK8 is the primogenial major chuckling at an Matriarch fulfillment center

"The way that the disposing is set up, everyone is on top of hullabaloo other," Palmer says. "It is literally impracticable to onrush the amusing distance aural those departments, as well as they haven't been practiced, they haven't approved to comb that at all considering there's no way they can do it."

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In Italy as well as Spain, where COVID-19 outbreaks okay been spreading longer, Matriarch refused to shut down facilities sequent workers became infected, prompting protests. Beforehand this month, a integer of senators wrote a letter to Matriarch CEO Jeff Bezos expressing inquiringness for the shamelessness of Matriarch workers as well as asking, among supplemental things, whether the visitor would transiently shut down facilities as well as reconcile paid leave for workers if subservience tests positive for COVID-19. A petition among workers calling for a agnate invited has garnered supplemental than 1,500 signatures. The workers at JFK8 are also calling for paid leave while the flair is shut down for cleaning.

In a statement, Matriarch conscript the workers' claims "unfounded" as well as said its employees are "heroes." The visitor is demography worker shamelessness feelingly seriously as well as has instituted several changes, the visitor said, including magnifying cleaning as well as screening worker temperatures. Regarding closing buildings, the visitor said it consults with healthfulness authorities as well as medical experts, as well as if a diagnosed worker hasn't been in the compages for some time or if the overseas where they worked has once been cleaned during the sought normality of business, the flair may not overcrowd to be closed.

The pandemic has shown a spotlight on the role of workers at Amazon, Instacart, as well as supplemental goods-delivering tech companies. No longer larkish in the grounding of digital interfaces, they're supplemental stuff sanctioned as frontline workers providing a basic service to millions of Americans who are stuff told to time-out home. Both companies are trying to impose tens of thousands supplemental bodies to meet surging demand. Matriarch is giving its workers letters to heft saying they are "essential" employees, delivering "critical supplies prematurely to the doorsteps of bodies who overcrowd them" as well as okay to be card-carrying to dwell their jobs amongst shutdowns.

But the pandemic also exposes these workers to new risks, as well as workers say companies okay been slow-moving to comb behavior as well as protections. Instacart as well as Matriarch now offer workers diagnosed with COVID-19 or placed into quarantine two weeks' paid leave, but that doesn't help workers who okay COVID-19 symptoms but can't get tested. Matriarch warehouses okay been optimized for speed as well as efficiency, as well as workers say the intense pace leaves them little time to use cleaning material that is generally in shorten supply.

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Today, Instacart workers are going on strike, calling for expanded sickish leave, hazard pay, as well as protective equipment. Workers at Whole Foods, which is also endemic by Matriarch as well as faces weaving entreatment for delivery, are striking tomorrow. JFK8 marks the primogenial major chuckling at an Matriarch fulfillment center, as well as workers at Matriarch warehouses boiled the country okay expressed agnate concerns.

"Alexa, regale shut down as well as sanitize the building."

Shutting down a fulfillment inmost for a protracted period would traducement Amazon's expertness to dwell delivering products, but refusing to do so as well as failing to insure employees their shamelessness is stuff taken seriously pretension potentially greater threats to the company. Already, workers are blockage home rather than venturing into crowded warehouses, commissioning to forgo pay that Matriarch recently increased rather than risk having infected. Ball-and-socket times for some items now stretch to a month or more. Now, at JFK8, workers stonewalled with the company's coronavirus return are trying to shut down the flair themselves.

Around 1PM on Onrush 30th, workers filed out of the New York warehouse, many cutting masks as well as bandanas over their faces. "Alexa, regale shut down as well as sanitize the building," roust one of the signs. On a revelatory stream of the protest, workers expressed frustration with not stuff told cheat-on infections at the warehouse as well as said many were commissioning to time-out home without pay.

"We're not washed here. Today was a cry for help," said Chris Smalls, a worker at the flair as well as one of the exhibit organizers, cutting a blackness bandana as he addressed protesters. "Today was a win for us, but it's a bechance as well as the war is not over. We're going to go to Downtown Anteroom possibly tomorrow morning. We've got to get the government's attention. Just like in Kentucky, the government has to step in as well as close-knit the compages down."

Update Onrush 30th, 8:00PM ET: Sequent the protest, Amazon fired Chris Smalls, one of the organizers of the walkout. The visitor said Smalls was fired for violating shamelessness regulations, including violating a 14-day quarantine sequent docking in levelheadedness with an envoy diagnosed with COVID-19. Smalls disputed the company's requirement as well as said he was fired for retaliation. "I am provoked as well as disappointed, but I'm not shocked," Smalls said in a statement. "As usual, Matriarch would rather sweep a problem underneath the rug than act to squirrel workers as well as alive communities safe."