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Support organizer @Shut_downAmazon, who is fighting for safe working conditions with the Congress of Essential Workers @TCOEW
Donate here: https://gf.me/u/y3sa8u
Donate here: https://gf.me/u/y3sa8u
Forced to work in an Amazon a warehouse in March and April with no masks, with co-workers experiencing symptoms, with no paid leave, he risked his life to ask for better working conditions for the people he was managing. Support here: https://gf.me/u/y3sa8u
Amazon leadership asked @Shut_downAmazon to keep it a secret that several warehouse workers had tested positive in March. He refused to jeopardize the lives of warehouse workers, and it has cost him his job and all his savings.
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support here: https://gf.me/u/y3sa8u
When offered quarantine pay for being exposed to a COVID-positive worker, Chris Smalls asked "what about everyone else in my department?" 5000 workers at the warehouse kept working, without quarantine pay, while Amazon covered up their positive cases. https://nypost.com/2020/03/30/amazon-fires-worker-who-organized-strike-over-coronavirus-response/
Chris Smalls was fired by Amazon when he went to the media with the lack of masks, lack of social distancing, dangerously allowing positive workers to keep working in secret. He lost his health insurance, income, and has kept organizing wrkrs
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Support: https://gf.me/u/y3stni
He founded the Congress of Essential Workers to help workers get legal advice, unemployment benefits, and organize work places.
"The extreme measures they took to hurt us showed they don't care about essential workers' lives. Ppl in that warehouse died." - @Shut_downAmazon
"The extreme measures they took to hurt us showed they don't care about essential workers' lives. Ppl in that warehouse died." - @Shut_downAmazon
"Amazon's strategy is to give an inch and take a mile" - offering $2/hr hazard pay, get media coverage, and then cut the hazard pay a month later. Offer signing bonuses for new workers while firing experienced workers who speak up.
Support workers here: https://gf.me/u/y3stni
Support workers here: https://gf.me/u/y3stni
@TENDEMANDS @davidkim2020 @BWestbrookAZ8 @rkroleski @stacyfmitchell @IndustrialWrkr pls lift up this tread to support Chris Smalls
