Hundreds of Amazon workers worldwide walked out of their jobs, protesting its return-to-office mandate, recent layoffs and its environmental record.

<div class="block">Hundreds of Amazon workers worldwide walked out of their jobs, protesting its return-to-office mandate, recent layoffs and its environmental record.</div>

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Amazon Seattle HQ Workers Stage Walkout

Elsewhere. Amazon workers are worldwide walking up the job today in protest of the tech giants returned to office mandate recent layoffs and its environmental record. Amazon employees for climate justice. That's a worker organization organized the move as the group has repeatedly pressed Amazon on its climate commitments while the walkout is now underway and reportedly it does include about 1900 workers, about 900 of them gathering outside of the spheres as you see on your screen there, there are these massive blast domes at the company's Seattle headquarters. Now the group behind the protest and a lack of trust in leadership's decision making is what the members are looking to highlight. And in the past year, Amazon has let go of 27,000 employees and then on May 1st, it did require employees to return to the office at least three days a week. The group also noted that Amazon isn't reaching its climate goals after carbon emissions jumped 20% in 2021 from 2019. Take a look today. The stack is down about 1.2%