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What Amazon, Walmart employees risk when they use the workplace for activism

  • Written by Elizabeth C. Tippett, Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Oregon
Amazon workers in Seattle walked off the job on Sept. 20 in a climate strike. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson

It has somehow become sort of normal to use the workplace to protest social issues unrelated to the job itself. This was something almost unheard of even five years ago.

The latest example came on Sept. 20 as more than 1,000 Amazon employees staged...

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