A person working at Amazon‘s Staten Island storage facility in New york city has actually passed away of COVID-19, the company verified to The Verge Amazon said the employee was last at the facility on April 5 and was put on quarantine after he was confirmed to have the disease on April11
” We are deeply saddened by the loss of an associate at our site in Staten Island, NY,” an Amazon representative said. “His family and liked ones remain in our thoughts, and we are supporting his fellow coworkers.”
Amazon has fired multiple workers who organized to demand better office safety measures during the pandemic, including Chris Smalls, a worker who staged a walkout at the Staten Island storage facility, which is called JFK8. On Monday, an Amazon vice president managing operations at Amazon Cloud referred to the firings and called them “chickenshit