One worker told ABC News that while Jeff Bezos is 'getting richer, his employees are getting sick.'
Just this week, an Amazon warehouse worker at the New York City facility where Smalls worked died of complications from COVID-19.
"Workers at other Amazon facilities have said essential supplies like hand sanitizer and disinfectant wipes are being rationed, and at times are wholly unavailable," the senators wrote. Smalls said he believes he was fired in retaliation for his organizing efforts at the company, which Amazon has vehemently denied. An Amazon spokesperson told ABC News that Smalls was fired for violating safety procedures and social distancing guidelines after he came in close contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19.with the paid sick leave policy at Amazon, which only extended to those diagnosed with COVID-19 or placed into quarantine.
"What these CEOs are failing to realize is that they are allowing your workforce to get sick and possibly die because you want to make sure that you’re still thriving during a pandemic, financially," Smalls said."That’s putting profits above people." “Under normal circumstances, in this coming Q2, we’d expect to make some $4 billion or more in operating profit,” the CEO said in a statement last Thursday. “But these aren’t normal circumstances. Instead, we expect to spend the entirety of that $4 billion, and perhaps a bit more, on COVID-related expenses getting products to customers and keeping employees safe.”
“While I can appreciate people protesting, and it’s certainly everyone's right to protest, it seems to me from a company standpoint and an executive standpoint, they are doing the right thing by reinvesting the profits into the company,” Herzog said. “If you as an employer can’t take the basic steps to protect your workers, there is something very wrong with your business model,” she said. “It makes complete business sense to take care of their workers.”An Amazon distribution center, April 25, 2020, in North Las Vegas, Nevada.'Why should we be putting our lives at risk for these nonessential items?'
Levandowski, of Amazon, told ABC News that the company is"not stopping or slowing down orders where we already have stock and where those orders do not prevent us from shipping priority items."
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