Amazon Workers Threaten Shutdown Over Voting

Amazon Workers Threaten Shutdown Over Voting

Amazon Workers Demand Day Off to Vote: Live UpdatesBy Karen WeiseWorkers at an Amazon Fulfillment Center in Kent, Wash., in May.Credit...Ruth Fremson/The New York TimesWorkers at Amazon are calling on groups around the country to help shut down Amazon warehouses temporarily on Halloween if the company does not give all its employees a paid day off to vote.The move is an escalation of the internal pressure being put on executives at the company, the country's second-largest private employer.In the past week, more than 6,500 Amazon corporate and tech workers have supported a proposal to give a paid day off to vote. Others have written to Jeff Bezos, the company's founder and chief executive.The organizing is led by Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, which has also mobilized thousands of corporate employees