Amazon workers at Amazon's Staten Island warehouse strike in demand that the facility be shut down and cleaned after one staffer tested positive for the coronavirus on March 30, 2020 in New York.

Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Michigan staged a walkout on Wednesday to call for greater protections against the coronavirus.

Organizers said about 40 employees walked out of the Romulus, Michigan, facility, known as DTW1. The workers are demanding that Amazon close DTW1 for two weeks in order to clean the facility, after two workers tested positive last week. News of the strike was first reported by The Verge.

"We're just hoping that we were heard enough for [Amazon] to realize, OK, something needs to be done," said Tonya Ramsay, a leader of the walkout and a worker at DTW1. "We're hoping we don't get too much retaliation or pushback from them."

An Amazon spokesperson told CNBC that it did not and will not take any disciplinary action against employees who participated in Wednesday's strike.

Following the strike, Ramsay said she received support from warehouse workers at other facilities in the country, with many of them indicating interest in staging similar protests at their facilities.

A spokesperson from Amazon told CNBC that fewer than 15 of the facility's 4,000 employees participated in the strike. The spokesperson said Amazon has been implementing policy changes on a daily, and sometimes hourly, basis to support teams and customers, including providing disinfectant wipes and hand sanitizer in its facilities.

"Like all businesses grappling with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, we are working hard to keep employees safe while serving communities and the most vulnerable," the spokesperson said in a statement. "We have taken extreme measures to keep people safe, tripling down on deep cleaning, procuring safety supplies that are available and changing processes to ensure those in our buildings are keeping safe distances. The truth is the vast majority of employees continue to show up and do the heroic work of delivering for customers every day."