Amazon Prime Day is a major cause of injuries for warehouse workers: US Senate
The Peninsula
NEW YORK: Amazon s popular Prime Day sales event has been a major cause of injuries for warehouse workers who pick and pack customer orders at the e...
NEW YORK: Amazon’s popular Prime Day sales event has been "a major cause of injuries” for warehouse workers who pick and pack customer orders at the e-commerce giant's facilities across the United States, according to a report released on Tuesday by Senator Bernie Sanders.
The report, which draws information from a year-long Senate committee investigation into Amazon's safety practices and relied on internal company data from 2019 and 2020, said peak shopping times - including the holiday shopping period - resulted in the "highest weekly injury rates” for warehouse workers.
The preliminary report from Sanders' office was also based on interviews with more than 100 current and former Amazon employees. This year's two-day Prime Day event started Tuesday.
In a statement, Sanders said the "incredibly dangerous working conditions at Amazon” highlighted in the report are a "perfect example of the type of corporate greed that the American people are sick and tired of."
"Despite making $36 billion in profits last year and providing its CEO with over $275 million in compensation over the past three years, Amazon continues to treat its workers as disposable and with complete contempt for their safety and well-being," said the Vermont independent, who has been critical of Amazon and supports worker efforts to unionize at the company. "That is unacceptable, and that has got to change.”
