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Amazon VP Quits over Retaliatory Firings of Protesting Workers

HeadlineMay 05, 2020

A top engineer and vice president at Amazon has resigned to protest the company’s recent firing of whistleblowers and warehouse workers who demonstrated against unsafe working conditions during the pandemic. Tim Bray described in a blog post what he called a “vein of toxicity running through the company culture.” He went on to write, “I choose neither to serve nor drink that poison.”

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