Workers were told they violated company policy when they criticized the retail giant in The Washington Post.
Amazon told its employees they could be fired after they tried to publicly pressure the online retail giant to more urgently address climate change.
Amazon employees Maren Costa and Jamie Kowalski had given a statement to The Washington Post for an October 2019 article in which they said Amazon was trying to distract from the fact that it “wants to profit in businesses that are directly contributing to climate catastrophe.” Story continuesAn Amazon spokesperson said the company updated its policy “to make it easier for employees to participate in external activities such as speeches, media interviews, and use of the company’s logo,” adding that the company began developing the updates in the spring, before the climate walkout.
Last spring, Amazon employees started urging the company to adopt ambitious commitments to curb climate pollution amid new scrutiny of the company’s effort to sell its computing services to the oil and gas industry. Amazon has historically been a corporate pariah on emissions issues, lagging behind big tech rivals such as Apple, Facebook and Google owner Alphabet on powering operations with renewable energy, according to Greenpeace.
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