Chris Smalls, an assistant manager and organizer, had led a walkout demanding Amazon temporarily shut the facility for cleaning after multiple workers tested positive for Covid-19.
Amazon claimed Smalls was dismissed because he had close contact with a worker diagnosed with Covid-19 but refused to stay home for 14 days.
Smalls, however, claimed Amazon did not send him home until 28 March, three weeks after the exposure.
For a corporation as virulently anti-union as Amazon, workers like Smalls are particularly dangerous: they are the future leaders of a labor movement.
There is no greater illustration of the moral decay of 21st-century corporate America than Amazon.
An America without guaranteed sick leave and universal healthcare is particularly ill-equipped to protect its inhabitants during a pandemic.
Into this void steps Amazon, a corporation that cares even less about the fates of those who serve it. »