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>>claude+(OP)
> “We support every employee’s right to criticize their employer’s working conditions, but that does not come with blanket immunity against any and all internal policies,” Herdener said.

> Amazon’s external communications policy prohibits employees from commenting publicly on its business without corporate justification and approval from executives. Herdener previously said the policy did not allow employees to “publicly disparage or misrepresent the company.”

Amazon is straight up firing these people for expressing their personal opinions. Amazon isn't even claiming they lied, or pretend to speak officially, or any other reason.

>>advise+ce
WaPo has an in-depth article with interviews from fired employees, @marencost and @emahlee [0].

These tweets, made on 27 March, allegedly broke the camel's back:

@marencosta I am matching donations to $500 to support my Amazon warehouse colleagues and their communities, while they struggle to get consistent, sufficient protections and procedures from our employer. DM or comment for match. [1]

@emahlee I'm matching donations up to $500 to support my Amazon warehouse worker colleagues. "The lack of safe and sanitary working conditions" puts them and the public at risk.

It's bad ya'll... [2] and @marencosta re-tweeted it.

@marencosta had been warned by Amazon, in late 2019, to not publicly disparage them.

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[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/04/13/amazon-...

[1] https://twitter.com/marencosta/status/1243585580736237568

[2] https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1243441985173651456.html