He worked at a Staten Island warehouse where employees had recently walked out to demand that the facility be temporarily closed and sanitized.
. Amazon said the employee was last at the facility on April 5 and was placed on quarantine after he was confirmed to have the disease on April 11.
“We are deeply saddened by the loss of an associate at our site in Staten Island, NY,” an Amazon spokesperson said. “His family and loved ones are in our thoughts, and we are supporting his fellow colleagues.” Amazon has fired multiple employees who organized to demand improved workplace safety measures during the pandemic, including Chris Smalls, a worker who staged a walkout at the Staten Island warehouse, which is known as JFK8. On Monday, an Amazon vice president overseeing operations at Amazon Cloud referred to the firings and called them “chickenshit” in a“Remaining an Amazon VP would have meant, in effect, signing off on actions I despised,” Tim Bray said.
On March 30, Amazon fired Smalls, who had encouraged employees to walk out and demand that Amazon temporarily close JFK8 to be sanitized. Vice News released a memo leaked after Smalls’ firing in which Amazon executives said he was “not smart, or articulate” and discussed plans to counteract his reports to the press. At the time, New York Attorney General Letitia James
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