Stop Amazon from Silencing Disabled Voices!

As Amazon workers with disabilities we have been speaking up about mistreatment in the workplace. Since that time everyone from Amazon HR, accommodations and executive management has been trying to silence our voices. This is done by silencing those who are requesting accommodations and not taking their accommodation requests seriously and by silencing those speaking up on Slack and organizing.

What Amazon has done is Number one -- remove posts and slack access (Along with threats of termination and discipline) to those organizing. Two - they have been taking retaliatory action against those with disabilities by denying essential accommodations, putting those requesting accommodations onto impossible Improvement Plans, unpaid leave, reassignment and wrongfully termination. Three - Using AI to automatically reject accommodations and make it difficult to request accommodations in the first place.

Our group represents those who need pregnancy accommodations, those who have spine disorders, strokes, blood clots,  in wheelchairs, those with cancer, have breathing disorders, autism, dyslexia, learning disabilities those with are blind and deaf.
 
We need your help to send a message to Amazon that they are not above the law.

According to an internal employee poll, approximately 93% of disabled respondents said the company's current policies had been personally damaging to them. 92% said there was no accessible process to secure necessary job accommodations. The situation is so bad that more than 600 disabled employees signed onto a letter urging Amazon executives to bring the company back in line with disability laws and labor laws.

The New Jersey Attorney General said, “There is no excuse for Amazon’s shameful treatment of pregnant workers and workers with disabilities. Amazon’s egregious conduct has caused enormous damage to pregnant workers and workers with disabilities in our state, and it must stop now.”

"The New York Human Rights Division further alleges that under Amazon's accommodation policy, employees with disabilities are forced to take unpaid medical leave even in situations where Amazon identified a reasonable accommodation"

In a Lawsuit in Seattle Washington which represents members of our group against Amazon representing 50 states across the US, the "Former EEOC Chair Charlotte Burrows told Yahoo Finance, “More and more employees are in a situation where they are looking to vindicate their rights under the law and cannot get relief because they're in an automated process that doesn't allow them to appeal to a person.”

It’s important for us to support Amazon workers and use our collective power to hold ultra-rich executives accountable for the unfair treatment of workers.