An Amazon executive said he quit his job at the online-retail giant to protest the firing of employees who spoke up about the conditions inside the company�s warehouses and its record on climate change.

Tim Bray, a vice president at the company, wrote in a blog post that he left his job last week �in dismay� after Amazon fired several workers who publicly criticized the company. He said the firings were �evidence of a vein of toxicity running through the company culture.�

Amazon, which is based in Seattle, declined to comment.

Among those fired was a New York warehouse worker who led a strike last month, pushing Amazon for more protections for workers against the new coronavirus. At the time, Amazon said the worker was fired for not obeying social-distancing rules.

Bray, who said he worked at Amazon�s cloud business for more that five years, said he brought up the firings internally at the company.

�That done, remaining an Amazon VP would have meant, in effect, signing off on actions I despised,� he wrote. �So I resigned.�

(AP)