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Amazon initially denied paid leave to Black woman employee run over, shot in New Orleans attack
Amazon denied paid leave to Alexis Scott-Windham, a Black woman who was shot in the New Orleans attack, before finally reversing its position.
In the latest example of shameless corporate greed and a basic disregard for human rights, an Amazon warehouse initially denied a request for a leave of absence by an employee who was shot after being struck by the truck driven in the deadly New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans. But that blessing was reportedly initially greeted with apparent indifference by the Amazon warehouse that employs Scott-Windham, the mother of an infant who still has a bullet lodged in her foot and suffered multiple fractures. This past June, Amazon Labor Union members overwhelmingly voted to join the 1.3 million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters, something that had been a long time coming for employment advocates.
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