Amazon warehouse workers say they are struggling to get Covid tests amid the Omicron surge now that the e-commerce giant has stopped onsite testing
But the emergence of the highly transmissible Omicron variant sweeping the US is contributing to a"I really wish they would bring free Covid testing back to us. It's scary how many Covid cases we have in our building at the moment," an anonymous Amazon warehouse worker in Texas told NBC News."Testing was hard. My partner and I had to go to two different places."
The worker and his partner, who also works at Amazon, both tested positive for Covid despite being vaccinated, according to NBC News.is one of the largest employers in the US, with about 1 million employees. About three-quarters of them work in the company's warehouses. Some workers also told NBC News that they had trouble getting support when they tested positive or thought they may have contracted the virus, as the company's overwhelmed human resource systems took too long to connect.
Amazon did not immediately reply to Insider's request for comment. However, company spokesperson Barbara Agrait told NBC News the company is focused on vaccinations and is looking into issues related to workers losing time off. "We continue to believe that the best way to protect our front-line employees and communities from COVID-19 is through vaccinations," Agrait told NBC News."To help, we have offered incentives and hosted more than 1,800 free on-site vaccination events at Amazon facilities across the US, making vaccines and boosters available to our employees and their household members."
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