

I highly doubt that Amazon is dumb enough to ask people to volunteer their time for free. There are way tooany ways that ends in lawsuits. HR and the lawyers would put a stop to that faster than you can say “wage theft”.
I’ve worked jobs where, at times of peak business, office staff were asked to volunteer for paid shifts rather than hire more people for a very short time. It’s not weird or malicious, it’s fairly normal.
“Volunteer” doesn’t always imply “work for free”.
This kind of thing is intended to draw outrage away from the other horrible things that he’s actually doing. If they talk about things that everyone agrees are insane, then back off, they spread the outrage around and get less pushback on their real agenda.
Anyway, that’s my theory.