Fired Worker Says Amazon Violated Minority Workers’ Rights During Pandemic

NEW YORK — A former Amazon worker who was fired after he led a workplace demonstration to protest the e-commerce giant’s alleged failure to protect its employees from contracting the COVID-19 virus filed a class action complaint in New York federal court, asserting claims of human rights violations.

In a Nov. 12 complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Christian Smalls says Amazon “was indifferent to the health and survival” of employees and their families “because a large majority of them were African Americans, Latino or immigrants who were vulnerable because of their …