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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/27\/22998856\/amazon-workers-werent-all-alerted-smoke-spread-through-warehouse-bessemer-alabama<\/a>
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Amazon workers claim they weren\u2019t all properly alerted as what they thought was smoke filled the third floor at a Bessemer, Alabama warehouse on Friday, according to a report from the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union<\/a> (RWDSU) (via Input<\/em><\/a>). While workers on the third floor were told to clock out, go on unpaid voluntary time off (VTO), and evacuate, employees on the other floors were allegedly left to continue working as an unidentified vapor spread throughout the facility. The \u201csmoke\u201d was later found to be vaporized oil from a malfunctioning compressor.<\/p>\n

According to the RWDSU\u2019s timeline of events, workers on the third floor evacuated around 1:30PM. Hours later, workers on the first floor started seeing the smoke-like substance and didn\u2019t evacuate until 5:45PM. They reportedly received no notification from a fire alarm, managers, or through the Go screens and A to Z app that Amazon uses to communicate with its workers, and allegedly only knew to evacuate as more employees got word of the situation.<\/p>\n

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