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Amazon Exec: ‘I Quit in Dismay’

“Working at Amazon is nice, but living with a clear conscience is better,” said a prominent vice president who resigned from the company’s cloud division Friday. This followed international protests at Amazon warehouses.

The high-ranking software engineer, Tim Bray, said he was leaving over the company’s firings of warehouse workers who spoke up about unsafe working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

[See exclusive RLN interview with fired national leader, Chris Smalls  https://www.randomlengthsnews.com/2020/05/05/chris-smalls-ny-amazon-organizer)]

Bray also mentioned the firing of two Amazon corporate employees who pressed the company over its environmental impact.

– Amazon says these employees were fired for violating company policies, not their activism. Bray thinks otherwise, describing the activist firings as “designed to create a climate of fear.” 

See his whole letter: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/04/29/Leaving-Amazon

Terelle Jerricks

During his two decade tenure, he has investigated, reported on, written and assisted with hundreds of stories related to environmental concerns, affordable housing, development that exacerbates wealth inequality and the housing crisis, labor issues and community policing or the lack thereof.

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