FRONTLINE WORKERS UNITE Amazon, Walmart, Target, FedEx and Instacart workers to hold ‘unprecedented strike’ on Friday over virus risk
WORKERS from big US businesses are set to stage an unprecedented strike Friday amid the coronavirus crisis, reports say.
Essential staffers at Amazon, Instacart, Whole Foods, Walmart, Target, and FedEx are slated to protest their employers' supposedly profiting at the expense of their health, reports say.
This comes after numerous protests amongst frontline employees over the past month, including Amazon workers near Detroit and McDonald's employees in Los Angeles.
The Intercept reports that employees will leave during their lunch break or call in sick to demonstrate their increasing frustration with the COVID-19 situation.
The protest comes as:
- Instacart, Walmart, and Amazon announce nearly 1M jobs in March
- Amazon ramps up cleaning as virus spreads to 10 warehouses
- Workers in Michigan plan another walkout at the start of April
- Walmart starts temperature checks while Amazon builds testing lab
- More than 26 million Americans file for unemployment by April 28
- Amazon, Instacart, Whole Foods, Walmart, Target, and FedEx workers plan walkout
Union membe Day," said Daniel Steinbrook, a Whole Foods employee strike organizer.
The May 1 demonstration on International Workers Day comes amid claims, from Amazon staffers in particular, that big businesses are not being honest about the COVID infection rates.
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