Amazon whistleblower Chris Smalls is creating a nonunion nationwide organization of essential workers.
The plan is to help them from facing another pandemic where they are “unprotected, underpaid, without hazard pay or sick time leave,” he said. With a patent pending and a web site in development, Smalls is starting The Congress of Essential Workers, or TCOEW, a rank-and-file committee that is going to be looking out for essential workers. The aim is to have personal protective equipment, safety guidelines and transparency from companies at all times.
Smalls was terminated from Amazon, which he joined in 2015, hours after organizing a protest about health and safety concerns at a warehouse in Staten Island. Amazon said he was terminated for putting the health and safety of workers at risk, by violating social distancing and coming in close contact with an associate diagnosed with COVID-19.Smalls said, “I was just a concerned supervisor, trying to speak out for the voiceless and my employees.
Amazon is not disclosing the number of its confirmed cases at this time, according to a company spokeswoman. Rates by site vary almost entirely based on the communities in which associates live, the spokeswoman said. She said infection rates are at or below the communities’ average in nearly all of its facilities, and that is the case with quarantine rates as well. “Quarantine rates are a critical part to understanding what’s happening in the workplace.
Amazon has said it has invested $800 million to better protect workers. Trying to enforce social distancing by videotaping employees and using AI to study their movements is one initiative under way at Amazon. Smalls is working with a team of current and former Amazon employees, as well as ones at Whole Foods, Walmart, Target, Instacart, FedEx and Shipt.
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