The employee activists that pressured Amazon to take more action on climate change have called for the company to grant all employees a paid day off to vote.
The group, Amazon Employees for Climate Justice on Thursday escalated their campaign, which had garnered more than 6,500 employee signatures on an internal petition, with a call for a protest action on Halloween.
In an online post, AECJ asked supporters — though not Amazon warehouse workers themselves — to temporarily block truck and van exits from the company’s fulfillment centers “whether with cars or bodies” for at least 15 minutes on Halloween. The group issued a news release including statements in support from MLK Labor, an umbrella group for Seattle-area unions, and climate-advocacy organization 350 Seattle.
“We’ve gone through appropriate channels internally and have gotten no response from Amazon leadership and with less than two weeks until the U.S. presidential election, Amazon must act immediately,” AECJ said in a Medium post.