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Who We Are
Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ) is an organization of Amazon corporate workers who care about climate justice. Our vision diverges from our senior leadership’s vision, which fails to be ambitious enough to meet the challenges of our time. We imagine a different Amazon, one in which Amazon truly contributes to the solutions needed to build a world that is sustainable for our planet, our workers, and our communities. We invite you to share your own thoughts with us, and read our full research report.
What we know now: we don't trust the current leadership to solve this on their own, and leadership has made changes before due to employee pressure. As workers, we are the best bet to keep the world's biggest companies on track to make the change we know we need. With your help, we can do this. Join us!
Our History
Our organization began with what we are still doing now: bringing together coworkers who want Amazon to do more on climate.
In December 2018, we started with a shareholder resolution asking Amazon to create a comprehensive, company-wide plan to reduce fossil fuel dependency. In 2019, we organized thousands of our coworkers to walkout as part of the Global Climate Strike, leading to Amazon’s Climate Pledge announcement.
Through grassroots, worker-powered organizing, we champion climate solutions that understand racism is deeply connected to the systems that exacerbate the climate crisis. As a group, we have proven that we can influence Amazon’s climate commitments, and that employees working together can build power to pressure large corporations to change.
What we’ve done
“Amazon Workers Walk Out Over Layoffs and Broken Climate Promises”
- Wired, May 2023
“Inside Amazon with a fired whistleblower and former VP: Maren Costa and Tim Bray”
- National Observer, June 2020
“As Amazon cracks down on dissent, tech and warehouse workers unite over coronavirus, environment”
- Seattle Times, April 2020
“Amazon workers demand company quit polluting near communities of color”
- The Verge, May 2021
“Coalitions forged during the pandemic point the way forward—with a radical vision of worker and community control.”
- “Amazon After Bessemer”, Boston Review, April 2021
“Thousands of Amazon workers demand time off to vote”
- NBC News, October 2020
“Activists at Amazon say its climate efforts still fall short”
- Wired, September 2020
“Amazon Is Getting Called Out by Its Own Workers for ‘Environmental Racism’”
- OneZero, May 2020
"Do more of what Amazon workers are doing.”
- “How to Make Tech Companies Actually Fight Climate Change”, Slate, September 2019
“The dramatic moment when an Amazon worker asked Jeff Bezos to protect planet Earth”
- Fast Company, May 2019
“Over 4,200 Amazon Workers Push for Climate Change Action, Including Cutting Some Ties to Big Oil”
- New York Times, April 2019
"Tech Workers Got Paid in Company Stock. They Used It to Agitate for Change.”
- New York Times, April 2019
“Jeff Bezos commits $10 billion to fight climate change”
- CNN, February 2020
“Thousands of tech workers fighting for climate action descend on Amazon HQ”
- GeekWire, September 2019
“Amazon Employees Will Walk Out Over the Company's Climate Change Inaction”
- Wired, September 2019
“Amazon employees launch mass defiance of company communications policy in support of colleagues” - Washington Post, January 2020