Claudia Irizarry Aponte at The City Reporter reports that for more than a year, Esly Paredes shared regular dispatches of her life as a Delivery Driver for Amazon to her small following on TikTok - dishing on her preferred lunch spots and fashion scores among hundreds of videos of herself hauling packages and killing time between shifts. In one post in late April - filmed, like many of her videos, in full uniform inside a parked Amazon truck - a man she describes as her boss smiles and waves at the camera. Paredes said her bosses never raised any issues about her fledgling Social Media presence. That is, until she posted a series of videos supporting a City Council Bill fiercely opposed by Amazon and a consortium of groups representing the company’s sub-contractors. Paredes was fired in late May for violating her employer’s solicitation and Social Media policies, according to a copy of her termination letter obtained by The City Reporter, a charge she says violates her Free Speech Rights. She filed a formal complaint to the National Labor Relations Board with the help of the Teamsters, which has been organizing Amazon Delivery Drivers in New York and California for the last several years. “They thought I would stay quiet and they thought that by firing me they would silence me,” Paredes, a 31-year-old single Mother from Jamaica, Queens, said in Spanish. “But I’m raising my voice, speaking out in my videos even more to explain to fellow Drivers why these protections are necessary.”

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