More Than 19,000 Amazon Employees Tested Positive for COVID-19 | Eater
"Front-line employees at the supermarket chain have been actively criticizing the employer’s pandemic response, including staging a “Sick Out” on March 31 to demand guaranteed paid leave, health care for part-time workers, and temporary closure of any location where an employee tests positive. The chain’s workers were included in a combined March–September company report that showed 19,816 cases among 1.37 million employees (1.44%), but the report did not provide a separate infection-rate breakdown for the chain, excluded third-party delivery drivers, and left out states with fewer than 1,000 employees — gaps cited by workers and organizers as undermining the report’s completeness." - Jaya Saxena
