The Canadian vice-president of Amazon Web Services has quit, citing the company’s firing of employees he said voiced concerns over work conditions amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Canadian vice-president of Amazon Web Services has quit, citing the company’s firing of employees he said voiced concerns over work conditions amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I quit in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of COVID-19,” said Vancouver-based Tim Bray in a blog post on Monday, He denounced the firings and said the company’s actions were “evidence of a vein of toxicity running through the company culture.”
In the blog, Bray said Amazon warehouse exployees concerned about work conditions amid the cornavirus pandemic had reached out to Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ), an employee group that calls for greater climate action at the company.
Bray wrote the AECJ responded by “internally promoting a petition and organizing a video call for Thursday, April 16, f