Former Amazon employee Christina Brown visited a United Parcel Service worksite on Friday to seek justice for her sister, Poushawn, who passed away after being told to illegally work at a Northern Virginia Amazon facility’s COVID testing center.
Christina has been a relentless force seeking to expose Amazon’s illegal abuse of its workforce. In 2021, Christina and her younger sister Poushawn worked at Amazon’s DDC3 warehouse in Northern Virginia. In early January 2021, Poushawn, who had been working at Amazon’s short-lived COVID-19 testing department despite having no previous medical training (a violation of federal law) complained of feeling ill to management. Denied time off, she finished out her shift, went home to sleep it off and never woke up again. Local laws require the family to pay the prohibitively high cost for an autopsy if a death is not determined to be a homicide or suicide.
Christina, appalled by Amazon’s treatment of her family, has given countless news interviews, visited with Amazon workers throughout the country and has held a number of demonstrations outside company founder Jeff Bezos’ Washington D.C. mansion to expose its criminal abuses of its workforce.
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