Ruthless Quotas at Amazon Are Maiming Employees
This holiday season, Amazon will move millions of packages at dizzying speed. Internal injury reports suggest all that convenience is coming at the expense of worker safety.
Amazon’s famous speed and technological innovation have driven the company’s massive global expansion and a valuation well over $800 billion. It’s also helped make Amazon the nation’s second-largest private employer behind Walmart, and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, one of the richest humans on Earth. Now an investigation by Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting has found that the company’s obsession with speed has turned its warehouses into injury mills.
Reveal amassed internal injury records from 23 of the company’s 110 fulfillment centers nationwide. Taken together, the rate of serious injuries for those facilities was more than double the national average for the warehousing industry: 9.6 serious injuries per 100 full-time workers in 2018, compared with an industry average that year of 4. source
An Amazon.com employee walks down one of the miles of aisles at an Amazon.com Fulfillment Center in Phoenix, Arizona
Workers in Amazon Staten Island hold rally over high injury rates
Workers at Amazon’s Staten Island packing facility say Jeff Bezos deserves a lump of coal in his stocking for running roughshod over them, especially during the busy holiday season.
Over a hundred Amazon workers and their supporters gathered outside the facility on Monday to protest working conditions that they say only worsen as the e-tailing giant gears up to deliver a rush of packages ahead of Christmas and Hanukkah.
The workers, who gathered outside the warehouse around 5:30 p.m., carried signs, chanted slogans and demanded a manager emerge from the building to accept a petition signed by 600 people — and addressed to Amazon chief executive Bezos, tied for richest man in the world with Bill Gates.
Their petition demands longer work breaks and more dedicated MTA buses to the far-flung facility. It also protests newly released injury data showing that the rate of worker injury at the facility is three times higher than similar warehouse work. source
Bozos too busy screwing his new sweetie to care.
In America corporations and government organizations that treat their employees like dirt are rewarded. At least in the past workers stuck together against the abuse. Today the thought is as long as it isn’t me, I don’t care! Then before you know it it’s your turn in the frying pan. By then it’s too late. Remember what happened to a Postal clerk in Oakland, Ca. in 2014. The clerk was injured and laid on the floor for twenty minutes before the stupidvisors called EMS. When it came for the Department of Labor to pay the death benefits the wife was turned down. She was told ” We don’t know what happened, he might have been taking a nap”. Only after a TV station ran the story did the D. O. L. pay the claim.