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Amazon warehouse workers in New York will strike after an employee tested positive for coronavirus

Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island plan to strike on Monday.

The strikers are demanding Amazon shut down the facility for a deep clean and pay its workers in the meantime.Close on 100 Amazon workers are planning to walk out of a Staten Island on Monday in protest of the company's policies on coronavirus.that the strikers had become concerned after a colleague was diagnosed with COVID-19 last week.

Smalls said that communication about which workers are in quarantine is poor. He himself is in quarantine as he came into contact with the worker who tested positive, and he said that only "a select few of the general managers," as well as people who worked on the same side of the building as the infected worker were informed of the diagnosis.

Another anonymous worker from the Staten Island warehouse told CNBC that gloves were being rationed to only two pairs per week.

 

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