Amazon.com Inc. has fired two workers in a Seattle-based facility after they both criticized the company over safety issues during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report today.

The Washington Post said the two workers, Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa, had been highly critical of how Amazon had dealt with the crisis at their facility, although according to that report, the two had also raised concerns in the past over Amazon’s climate policies as well.

The two join another worker who was controversially fired recently after he made some noise about conditions at a facility in New York. That worker, Chris Smalls, led a protest after saying conditions were not safe at the facility.

The fallout from that was a possible lawsuit against Amazon for retaliating against a worker who was only protesting for worker rights, with New York Attorney General Letitia James calling Amazon “immoral and inhumane.” Amazon’s response was that Smalls had been fired not for protesting, but for breaking rules concerning COVID-19 safety measures.

The New York Times also reported today that yet another worker has felt the wrath of Amazon after he attempted to arrange a virtual meeting online to talk about the bad conditions at one Amazon warehouse. The man, Chris Hayes, had already handed in his notice over safety issues, although Amazon fired him when the company heard about the virtual meeting.

With so many people staying at home and ordering items online, Amazon’s business has been booming and the company has needed to hire thousands more workers.

The company announced that it’s taking every precaution to stop the spread of the virus, such as taking temperatures of workers and implementing social distancing along with CCTV surveillance, but Amazon’s busy facilities are not exactly an ideal to be during a virus pandemic.

Workers all over the U.S. have talked about just how at risk they feel, while workers in Italy and Spain have also protested after being told to stay at work at facilities where people have become infected. The company has faced a tsunami of criticism for carrying on through the hard times and also for how slow it has been to pay workers who were sent home.

It’s not yet clear just how many cases of COVID-19 there have been at Amazon’s facilities worldwide, although it seems in the U.S. the number of workers who have been tested positive is about 70. A manager at a California facility recently died after being tested and found positive for COVID-19.

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