Hundreds of Amazon workers protest company's climate impact, return-to-office mandate

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By ED KOMENDA 3 minutes ago

SEATTLE (AP) — Telling executives to “strive harder,” hundreds of corporate Amazon workers protested what they decried as the company’s lack of progress on climate goals and an inequitable return-to-office mandate during a lunchtime demonstration at its Seattle headquarters Wednesday.

The protest came a week after Amazon’s annual shareholder meeting and a month after a policy took effect requiring workers to return to the office three days per week. Previously, team leaders were allowed to determine how their charges worked.

The employees chanted their disappointment with the pace of the company’s efforts to reduce its carbon footprint — “Emissions climbing, time to act” — and urged Amazon to return authority to team leaders when it comes to work location.

Wearing a black pirate hat and red coat, Church Hindley, a quality assurance engineer, said working from home allowed him to live a better, healthier life.




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[Think. Again.]

1. My deepest gratitude to the employees...

My deepest gratitude to the employees trying to hold Amazon accountable for the company's ecological negligence.

[EX500rider]

2. 100's?

According to Amazon's latest Annual Report, Amazon employs approximately 1,541,000 full-time and part-time employees.

[PSPS]

5. Um, all of them don't work at that building.

[3Hotdogs]

3. I wonder were Mr. Hindley's new job will be.

[MichMan]

4. If all the warehouse workers are required to show up in person, so should the administrative staff

[Hugh_Lebowski]

7. Those are inherently different kinds of jobs though

IMHO as many people, worldwide, who CAN work from home ... should be working from home.

Because people physically going to work means more carbon emissions, other than the small % of people who's travel there is carbon-neutral.

[MichMan]

8. It shows unity within a workplace

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The same reasoning on why the Japanese owned manufacturing companies abolished a separate management dining room and had everyone, regardless of position, wear the same company uniform. When I first started working in the automotive industry those things were trendsetting.

Nearly everyone working from home is a white collar worker while blue collar workers are required to show up in person. It furthers an "us vs. them" environment and creates a lot of resentment with the working class.

I spent most of my career working in smaller manufacturing plants. It is really frustrating to the hourly workers when every time they need help or have a question from management & support staff, that they have to try & call someone working at home to leave a voice mail for an answer, vs just walking in their office.

[Magoo48]

6. Support with all having the courage to take this stand. Solidarity

[ripcord]

9. I believe this is about the environment and not these workers having to return to work