I’m not at liberty to disclose those discussions, but I made many of the arguments appearing in this essay. VPs shouldn’t go publicly rogue, so I escalated through the proper channels and by theīook. Instead, they just fired the activists.Īt that point I snapped. Number of other things there was plenty of time. Management could have objected to the event, or demanded that outsiders be excluded, or that leadership be represented, or any Were laughable it was clear to any reasonable observer that they were turfed for whistleblowing. Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa, two visible AECJ leaders, were fired on the spot that day. Lists on Friday April 10th was apparently theįlashpoint. Organizing a video call for Thursday April 16 featuring warehouse workers from around the world, with guest activist Warehouse workers reached out to AECJ for support. Leaked executive meeting notes where the focus was on defending Amazon “talking points”. Then a worker organizing for better safety conditions was fired, and

Official statements claimed every possible safety precaution Stories surfaced of unrest in Amazon warehouses, workers raising alarms aboutīeing uninformed, unprotected, and frightened. Their employer for being forward-thinking in fact, leadersįast-forward to the Covid-19 era. It’s not as though the activists were acknowledged by Plan aimed at making the company part of the climate-crisis solution. Joined in the Global Climate Strike walkout. Four months later, 3,000 Amazon tech workers from around the world While the resolution got a lot of votes, it didn’t pass. Letter promoting a shareholders’ resolution calling for dramatic action and leadership from Amazon on the global climateĮmergency. Last year, Amazonians on the tech side banded together asĪmazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ), first coming to the Million (pre-tax) dollars, not to mention the best job I’ve ever had, working with awfully good people. What with big-tech salaries and share vestings, this will probably cost me over a I quit in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of Covid-19. May 1 st was my last day as a VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services, after five years and five months

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