Whole foods, Amazon and workers' institutes are considering hitting
Security concerns in the middle of COVID-19 have many threats to walk from Tuesday.
Although many have had the relative luxury of working from the house during thecoronavirus epidemicThere are a number of hourly workers who haveNo choice but to go to their workplace. EmployeesWhole foods, Amazon andInstatted Now are threatening to grind or stage a "patient" in protesting what they feel dangerous working conditions.
Other than heroic health care workers on medical lines, other heroes are the daily and often schedules of grocery workers and online delivery services and retailers who always fulfill the controls of food and the food. 'supply. The US economy plays on the point of disaster because of social distancing and social quarantine, but to order objects of, for example, Amazon and the delivery of food are really the last vestige of the economy of suddenly fragile consumption.
However, employees of some of these companies are concerned that their safety and well-being are neglected in the midst of the potentially fatal risk on the public health caused by the coronavirus.
The amazon's epicenter is in an accomplishment warehouse in Sten Island, New York, while Instacart is faced with a national strike. AsNPR Reports, Amazon and Instacart workers are asking for a variety of changes, including a period of paid illness (not only for those who have been positive for COVID-19).
Amazon workers are asking for better cleaning of warehouses, while instituting workers require disinfecting wipes, a hand disinfectant and an increase in the health risks that they take up on work.
Amazon continued coherent service in the coronavirus epidemic, despite many cases striking their business. NPRreports:
Workers at Amazon Sten Island reported that several warehouse people were diagnosed with COVID-19. Some of them are considering going out of work on Mondays to put pressure on the company to close the warehouse for prolonged cleaning.
At Amazon, which employs approximately 800,000 people, workers have diagnosed positively for Covid-19 in at least 11 warehouses, forcing a prolonged closure of at least at leastA warehouse in Kentucky. The company says it "taken extreme measures for people to be safe", including allowing unlimited unpaid deadline for employees who feel uncomfortable to work.
Employees of all foods would have considered Tuesday, March 31 to graze in demonstration of what they call a lack of protection offered to workers during the coronavirus pandemic. Vicereports:
March 31, employees of all foods will call patients at the request of paid holidays for all workers who stay at home or in quarantine during the crisis, free coronavirus tests for all employees and the Remuneration of the current double-wage risks for employees who present themselves to work during the pandemic.
"Covid-19 is a very real threat to the safety of our workforce and our clients", the total worker, the group of national workers who organizes "patients" has written in a statement. "We can not wait until politicians, institutions or our own direction can intervene to protect us."
A number of whole food workers across the country have been positive tested forCOVID-19, and as vicereports"In each of these places, the stores have remained open, leading some employees to load that all diet did not give priority to their safety during a record sales period."
Whole foods became a subsidiary of Amazon when the massive retailer purchased the high-end grocery chain at the end of the summer of 2017. It is not clear in which one of these stops of Work will be universal, or if they will be localized to some stores and facilities.
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