Amazon warehouse workers walk out in rising tide of COVID-19 protests

Workers at Amazon’s Staten Island, NY, fulfillment center walked out today to protest the company’s response to COVID-19 infections among its warehouse employees. Amazon has confirmed one case of the coronavirus at the New York facility, but workers say there have been at least ten, and that the company has failed to notify workers or properly clean the warehouse. Now, they are calling for Amazon to shut down the facility for two weeks for deep cleaning.“The goal is to get that