[영어기사/The Week] 아마존 부사장, 시위자 해고로 인해 사임하다 ( Amazon executive resigns over protester firings)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/business/amazon-tim-bray-resigns.html

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단어 정리

senate: 상원

complaint: 고소장

resign over: (~한 이유로) 사임하다

dismay: 실망

circulate: 유포하다

petition: 진정서

attorney: 변호사

Attorney general: 법무장관

whistle-blower: 내부고발자

dismissal: 해고

필사리뷰

Amazon executive resigns over protester firings

An Amazon vice president, Tim Bray, said Monday that he had quit his job at the online giant "in dismay" over the company's decision to fire some workers who protested workplace safety during the coronavirus pandemic. Bray, an engineer, was vice president of the company's cloud computing arm, and before that of Amazon Web Services. Bray criticized the firings of Staten Island warehouse protest leader Christian Smalls, and Maren Costa and Emily Cunningham, who circulated a petition in March calling on Amazon to expand sick leave.

Smalls' case is being investigated by New York's attorney general. Bray said the fired workers were whistle-blowers, and that their dismissal was "evidence of a vein of toxicity running through the company culture."