The letter was also signed by Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Sherrod Brown (D- Ohio), Edward J. They asked Amazon to answer a detailed set of questions and provide records about communication and health and safety practices at their Edwardsville warehouse, and about whether Amazon was providing support for injured and deceased workers, by no later than January 3, 2022.
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During Hurricane Irma in 2017, drivers were forced to deliver packages.During Hurricane Ida in 2021, Amazon warehouses remained open, even as flooding led to 14 deaths in New York.At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, from March 2020 to October 2020, at least 20,000 Amazon employees tested positive for COVID-19, yet nationwide, workers were forced to return to warehouses or they would be fired.The members revealed how the effects of Amazon’s negligent and exploitative labor practices are a part of their business model – not an exception: While Amazon earned $21 billion in 2020, and Jeff Bezos is worth $184 billion, many of its workers cannot support themselves on their low wages and have high workplace injury rates. These concerns fit into an ongoing, company-wide pattern of exploitative labor practices, including neglecting safety, denying fair wages and benefits, using union-busting tactics against workers organizing for better conditions, and retaliating against whistleblowers. And when the 155 miles per hour winds hit the warehouse, its walls collapsed and the roof caved in, raising questions about whether it was built to ensure worker safety.Īfter this tragedy, workers expressed concerns about inadequate workplace safety, including the fact that Amazon held no tornado drills and infrequent fire drills. Even when the tornado hit, the company’s internal message board did not send its employees any updates. Though the National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for the area 36 hours before the tornado touched down, Amazon reportedly did not provide its employees in Edwardsville any advance instructions or flexibility to remain sheltered safely at home. The members pressed Amazon for answers about its policies and actions in Edwardsville and at other Amazon facilities in the country. Together, the members called out Amazon’s anti-worker and anti-union policies and expressed grave concerns about how Amazon’s policies may have contributed to these tragic deaths, and other health and safety problems affecting its workers. Amazon must answer for its exploitative labor practices – and we cannot let a tragedy like this happen ever again.” “Putting corporate profits above the health and safety of workers is unacceptable. “The circumstances that led to six deaths at the Edwardsville warehouse are heartbreaking and another reminder that Amazon’s anti-worker and anti-union practices put their workers directly in harm’s way,” said Senator Elizabeth Warren.
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Louis, to be initiating this investigation into Amazon with my colleagues Senator Warren and Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez to demand full accountability. This cannot become the cost of doing business in America, and I am proud, on behalf of the people of St. Amazon’s profits should never come at the cost of our community’s lives, health, and safety. Louis lost two of our brightest lights in these horrific storms as well as four of their colleagues. “My heart shattered when I saw the news that St. People are what make this country thrive,” said Congresswoman Cori Bush. People are why this company even had the resources to build this center in the first place. LOUIS, MO - Today, Congresswoman Cori Bush (MO-01), Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) sent a letter to Amazon’s Executive Chairman, Jeff Bezos, and its President and CEO, Andy Jassy, demanding answers about the circumstances that led to the death of six employees, including two constituents from Missouri’s First Congressional District, after an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois collapsed during a tornado on December 10, 2021.
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