STATEMENT: Athena Coalition Responds to Amazon’s Black Leadership Departures FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, June 22, 2022 Contact: press@athenaforall.org In response to two of Amazon’s most senior Black executives departing the company, the Athena Coalition provided the following statement: “Less than a year into his tenure as CEO of Amazon, and amidst growing scrutiny from workers, […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jane Chung, 201-686-5901, jane@theworkeragency.com In response to results of the Amazon’s Annual General Meeting that took place on May 25, 2022, Maurice BP-Weeks Executive Director of Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE) and founding member of the Athena Coalition, provided the following statement: “A record-breaking four Amazon warehouse workers […]

About the Report (Download the Report as PDF) Over the last year, Amazon’s needless abuse of power over workers, communities of color, and small businesses put it in the center of investigations, state and federal oversight, legislative action, and civil society campaigns. Amazon’s continued failure to address these abuses is resulting in escalating actions to […]

Today, on Workers’ Remembrance Day, we honor and remember the lives of Amazon workers lost, injured, and otherwise harmed this past year. We remember the six workers who were killed last December in Edwardsville, Illinois. These deaths were preventable, but were not prevented due to Amazon’s negligence of basic worker safety drills and National Weather […]