Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, 15 US senators have called upon the online retail giant to improve safety practices and treatment of its workers, mention in a new letter. ‘Any practice that puts profits before worker safety is unacceptable,’ read the letter signed by Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, and Cory Booker, among others.
The letter mentioned that recent analysis of Amazon’s own internal injury records by The Atlantic, Reveal from the Centre for Investigative Reporting and by a coalition of workers advocate organisations found disturbing injury rates at the Amazon warehouse.
‘Recent investigations into Amazon’s safety records found that the injury rate of workers at Amazon facilities is much higher than the injury rate for private-sector employees in the U.S. and even for the warehouse industry generally,’ reads the letter.
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