Amazon staff at its key warehouse in New York are planning to strike today in a bid to force the retailer to deep clean the site and provide extra protection for employees.
Around 100 workers plan to stage a work stoppage at Amazon’s JFK8 site on Staten Island after an employee was confirmed to have contracted COVID-19.
While the employee has been told to self-isolate for 14 days by Amazon, the strike’s lead organiser Chris Smalls says the site has continued to run as usual at since the confirmed case and workers were becoming concerned about the virus spreading “like wildfire”.
