Amazon fires at least 3 employees who criticized workplace conditions

Enlarge / A worker hauling boxes at an Amazon warehouse in Baltimore, Maryland, on April 14. (credit: Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images)

Amazon, which is desperately trying to bulk up staffing amid surges in demand, has reportedly fired another three employees and suspended a fourth after those workers led efforts to speak out against working conditions in the company's warehouses.

Two workers let go on Friday, Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa, are both tech workers based in Seattle's headquarters, the Washington Post reports. Both were active in an internal employee group advocating for climate issues and had circulated a petition inside the company calling on Amazon to expand benefits and pay for employees in warehouses. Both also posted tweets in March offering to match donations to a fund set up to support workers at Amazon's warehouse in Queens.

Another employee, Chris Hayes, was not allowed to finish out his notice period after he resigned from the company in protest of its treatment of warehouse workers, The New York Times reports. He gave notice earlier, saying his last day would be April 17, but last week, after he sent colleagues an invitation to a discussion with warehouse workers, HR told him he was no longer allowed to work.

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