{"id":138280,"date":"2020-03-31T03:47:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T01:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/03\/31\/amazon-workers-walk-out-over-lack-of-protective-gear-amid-coronavirus\/"},"modified":"2020-03-31T03:47:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T01:47:31","slug":"amazon-workers-walk-out-over-lack-of-protective-gear-amid-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=138280","title":{"rendered":"Amazon workers walk out over lack of protective gear amid coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 workers went on strike at a New York City facility after reports of multiple employees testing positive for Covid-19 Amazon workers walked out of a New York City facility on Monday, going on strike and demanding increased protective gear and hazard pay as they work through the coronavirus pandemic.\u201cSince the building won\u2019t close by itself, we\u2019re going to have to force their hand,\u201d Chris Smalls, lead organizer of the Staten Island strike, told CNBC. He added that workers \u201cwill not return until the building gets sanitized\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2020\/mar\/30\/amazon-workers-strike-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon workers walk out over lack of protective gear amid coronavirus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 workers went on strike at a New York City facility after reports of multiple employees testing positive for Covid-19 Amazon workers walked out of a New York City facility on Monday, going on strike and demanding increased protective gear and hazard pay as they work through the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}