Some few days ago, we reported that, Amazon had shutdown 6 warehouses in France, due to protests, by the workers and the fact that, the workers union, had taken the eCommerce giant to a court.
The court’s final judgment had mandated Amazon, to increase the health protocol of the company and make the workplace safer for workers.
The latest news, however, is that, Amazon workers have embarked on an indefinite strike, in a solidarity protest, for a better working condition, which the leadership of Amazon are allegedly finding difficult to provide.
This strike came on the heels of, over 30 Amazon’s warehouse workers, having been confirmed, to have tested positive for COVID-19.
On Monday, the Athena coalition, a group of workers’ rights organizations, released a statement, which states that “the biggest mass action, by workers yet, as frustrations mount, around the company’s failure, to protect workers and provide public health, in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic”.
“For weeks, Amazon workers have sounded the alarm, over unsafe conditions, at facilities, and still nothing was done, by the leadership of Amazon”, the statement further stated.
The company’s French CEO has, however, come out to condemn this move by the workers and has claimed that, the company has distributed millions of masks to its workers and has moved swiftly, to implement temperature checks, at all of its US and European warehouses.
If this protest continues to go on, amid the stay at home order, given by the government, there is a high probability that, the eCommerce ecosystem in France, will suffer, as lots of small businesses have relied on Amazon, to deliver some essential commodities that are necessary, for the survival of their start-ups.
As of now, there is no clear date that the strike will be called off, as the workers’ protests, for better protective methods, but as long as the pandemic is still in full swing, Amazon will have to find a subtle way of solving this issue.
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