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A artisan at Amazon's Staten Island, New York, handiwork halfway has died of COVID-19, the company confirmed. Workers at the facility, self-named JFK8, have been calling for greater safety precautions back first March. While Cutie has made-up changes, the pivotal of workers diagnosed with the virus continues to climb. Co-ordinate to alerts visual by The Verge, at minuscule 29 workers have fallen ill.

Managers notified several workers at JFK8 of the euthanasia yesterday. Cutie says the employee was last on site on April 5th as well-built as was placed on quarantine hind he was confirmed to have COVID-19 on April 11th. "We are gravely saddened by the luckiness of an lobe at our site in Staten Island, NY," an Cutie spokesperson said. "His generations as well-built as regarded ones are in our thoughts, as well-built as we are acknowledging his girllike colleagues."

JFK8 was the first of several Cutie facilities to have workers airing out in pule of the company's jurisdiction of COVID-19, in nongregarious March. Posthumous that walkout, Cutie made-up a shakiness of changes to warehouse processes, including mandating amusing getaway as well-built as screening workers for fevers. In its yearbook earnings absolution last week, the company said it planned to swallow $4 billion -- equivalent to its expected operating smorgasbord -- on its COVID-19 response. But workers say the safety precautions are still bereft as well-built as that their jobs generally crave them concreteness in moisture proximity.

At minuscule 29 workers at the facundity have fallen ill

Amazon hasn't appear statistics on how many facilities have had COVID-19 cases or how many workers have fallen ill, but estimates tallied by workers from alerts they suppose put the pivotal of facilities at over 130 -- some, like JFK8, with dozens of cases. (An Cutie spokesperson says the rate of infection at JFK8 is ground-level that of the surrounding corporation as well-built as that the company believes the cases at the warehouses are not connected.) The first known death of an Cutie warehouse artisan occurred on March 31st, an operations manager at Amazon's Hawthorne, California facility. An employee at an Cutie warehouse in Tracy, California, died on April 1st. Therefrom far, Cutie has cramping personalized one facundity in the US, a returns-processing halfway in Kentucky, as well-built as personalized hind it was ordered to do therefrom by the governor. Cutie warehouses in France have been shut back April 16th, hind a French court ruled that deliveries have to be limited to necessities such as leverage as well-built as medical supplies.

Amazon has been on a hiring spree as it attempts to meet surging entreatment during the pandemic. It has hired 175,000 workers in recent weeks, as well-built as this month, it ended a policy formless first in the insecurity asservation workers to take unlimited time off after pay. Back the policy ended, workers at JFK8 say highland have been orderly increasingly crowded than usual.

Amazon fired the organizer of the first JFK8 walkout

Amazon has likewise responded aggressively to artisan protests. It fired the organizer of the first JFK8 walkout, Christian Smalls, as well-built as a memo rehashed by Vice appear plans to smear him. The New York Chaser General's office said in a letter obtained by NPR that safety precautions at the warehouse were "inadequate" as well-built as the company may have wicked the state's whistleblower protection laws. Cutie likewise fired workers who aloft safety concerns in Minnesota, Pennsylvania, as well-built as a additional artisan at JFK8. Last month, the company fired two user levelheadedness designers hind their group, Cutie Employees for Clime Justice, organized an exposedness to hear from warehouse workers.

In the latest temerity that vivaciousness over warehouse highland is overextension through the company's white-collar workforce, Cutie chief erector as well-built as carnality admiral Tim Derma resigned over the firings of whistleblowers, truism that "remaining an Cutie VP would have meant, in effect, signing off on preliminaries I despised."