According to the Senate panel, Amazon in 2021 began studying the impact of repetitive motions on warehouse workers, including how many products they could pick from robotic shelving units. The internal research found that employees who were trying to keep pace with company production quotas usually ...
All threeAmazon workersdied within the past month and were employed at company facilities in New Jersey. The new Occupational Health and Safety Administration investigations are putting fresh scrutiny on the company's injury rates and workplace-safety procedures. Amazon warehouse with packages and compa...
Amazon won't build storm shelters in its warehouses after lawmakers called on the company to adopt more stringent emergency-preparedness measures in the wake of a deadly building collapse. Six workers were killed in December 2021 at an Amazon warehouse in Illinois after a tornado ripped through t...
Other than that, "I'm just thankful to be here,"she said. "I just want to tell my story to everybody. I don't want to take life for granted. It's really opened my eyes." On one Prime Day, Amazon warehouse workers endured '45% injury rate' Judges not impressed by Amazon, Space...
group, listed the corporation at the top of its “Dirty Dozen” list. This identifies employers that put workers and communities at risk due to unsafe practices. Seven people were killed while working at Amazon warehousesbetween 2013 and 2018, including one worker at a warehouse in Pennsylvania...
An Amazon warehouse in Illinoiscollapsed in a tornadoin December of last year. In April,OSHAsaid the warehouse "met minimal federal safety guidelines for storm sheltering." The family of 26-year-old Austin McEwen, an Amazon delivery driver who was killed in the collapse,filed a lawsuitagainst...
U.S. regulators are calling on Amazon to improve its procedures for dealing with severe weather like hurricanes and tornadoes that could threaten workers at its warehouses dotted across the country.
The strikes happening Thursday are taking place at one Amazon warehouse in San Francisco, California, and six delivery stations in southern California, New York City; Atlanta, Georgia, and Skokie, Illinois, according to the union’s announcement. Amazon workers at the other facilities are “prepare...
Police in Lakeville have arrested the man suspected of shooting and killing a pregnant woman outside of an Amazon Warehouse over the weekend.
The strikes happening Thursday are taking place at an Amazon warehouse in San Francisco and six delivery stations inSouthern California, New York City, Atlanta and theChicago suburb of Skokie, Illinois, according to the union's announcement. Amazon workers at the other facilities are "prepared to...