Amazon suspended around 50 workers at a Staten Island warehouse—which voted to unionize six months ago—for refusing to go back to work on Monday. The workers said they cited safety concerns over a fire that had happened at the facility earlier that day.
“Your badge has been suspended pending an investigation,” read one email, which was shared with Gothamist. “You should not return to the site at this time and you will be compensated for your regularly scheduled shifts throughout the course of the investigation.”“When this suspension is up I believe we are going to be terminated,” said one worker, who asked that her identity be withheld, fearing retaliation from her employer. “I’m a single mom of two. I don’t find that fair.
Workers who arrived for the night shift on Monday evening spent the first hour-and-a-half in the breakroom unable to go onto the warehouse floor, with no information from their managers as to why or what had happened, according to several workers who spoke with Gothamist. When managers eventually started sending them to the warehouse floor after around 8 p.m., many described a noxious smell of burning chemicals and smoke still lingering in the air, particularly on the upper floors.
“The smoke and the fumes were still in the air,” said Derrick Palmer, an organizer for the ALU. He worked a morning shift, but arrived at the facility to support workers that night. He was also suspended the next day. “I saw workers coughing, complaining.” Amazon has suspended over 50 workers who were involved in last night's walkout. It was not a "handful." It was nearly everybody involved in the action. This is clear retaliation against workers who refused to work in safe conditions.
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