A dozen employees at Worldwide Flight Services have been fired or suspended after protesting working conditions last December, according to five workers at the Eagan warehouse.

The five employees assert that Worldwide Flight Services retaliated against them for speaking out about working conditions and a wider culture at the company that targeted Muslim workers.

Worldwide Flight Services handles Amazon’s air freight, with roughly 35 to 50 employees filling shifts at the warehouse and the airport, according to the employees who spoke to Sahan Journal. The vast majority of workers are Somali immigrants and Muslims, they say, while most of the supervisors are white.

Following last year’s protest, Worldwide Flight Services said it had opened an investigation into the situation. But several employees now tell Sahan Journal that working conditions since then have only become worse.

Some workers have filed informal complaints with human resources. A group of them are currently shopping around for lawyers to see if there are grounds for a lawsuit.

“After the protest, everything got worse,” said Mustafa Karama, a warehouse agent who said he was fired last month for insubordination and verbal abuse against a supervisor.

Mustafa says the company fired him for speaking up on behalf of a coworker. He alleges that a Worldwide Flight Services supervisor told a pregnant Somali woman to clean the warehouse’s parking lot, a strenuous job. The woman had a doctor’s note explaining that she...

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