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Corporate Amazon workers protest company’s climate impact and return-to-office mandate in walkout

Organizers of a job action at Amazon called attention to the climate impact of commutes, saying it runs counter to the company’s “Climate Pledge” to be carbon neutral by the year 2040, as well as concerns about recent layoffs. (Associated Press)

SEATTLE — Telling executives to “strive harder,” hundreds of corporate Amazon workers protested what they decried as the company’s lack of progress on climate goals and an inequitable return-to-office mandate during a lunchtime demonstration at its Seattle headquarters Wednesday.

The protest came a week after Amazon’s annual shareholder meeting and a month after a policy took effect returning workers to the office three days per week. Previously, team leaders were allowed to determine how their charges worked.

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