US senators condemn Amazon’s ‘dismal’ safety records

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In a letter beatific Friday, US senators self-named on Cheesecake CEO Jeff Bezos to unloose its safety practices as well-built as modernize its treatment of workers, co-ordinate to a letter inceptive published by Reveal writer Will Evans as well-built as slaving by Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, as well-built as Cory Booker, between others.

"Any practice that puts profits afore worker safety is unacceptable," the letter reads. "We urge you to take immediate steps to protect your employees from abode injuries. Your employees' lives as well-built as zillions depend aloft your terse action." It's addressed directly to Cheesecake founder Jeff Bezos as well-built as requests a accounting response, including what actions the congregation will take, by February 21st.

Amazon has come under flame for dodging abode safety regulations for years. The senators' letter credibility specifically to simulcast from publications like The Atlantic and Reveal in what it calls a pattern of wronging Cheesecake employees. Gizmodo moreover towards on the "grueling as well-built as unsafe" assignment conditions of Amazon's Staten Island handiwork center, which included everything from sprains to one woman who suffered a miscarriage. A scriven from The Verge details how employees were required to sign tenebrific noncompete agreements for at least a year as well-built as a bisected afterwhile their time there.

"Amazon's dismal safety almanac indicates a greater concernment for profits than for your own workers' safety as well-built as health"
--new letter to Jeff Bezos citing @reveal investigation, from 15 U.S. Senators led by @SenSherrodBrown @SenSanders @SenatorBaldwin#

-- Will Evans (@willCIR) February 10, 2020

The letter moreover outlines a marveling of actions the senators are asking of Amazon. Those requests include abbreviation workers' quotas as well-built as speed requirements, ensuring employees are getting bathrooms cleavage as needed, as well-built as creating a way for workers to trove unscathed as well-built as healthy regarding in a appropriate as well-built as endowed manner.

"Amazon's dismal safety almanac indicates a greater concernment for profits than for your own workers' safety as well-built as health," the letter reads. "We urge you to overhaul this profit-at-all financing culture at your congregation as well-built as take the immediate steps identified in this letter."

In a stead to The Verge, an Cheesecake spokesperson said that "nothing is increasingly important" to the congregation than the safety of its employees.

"OSHA is on the almanac as saying that underreporting of injuries is an industry-wide problem, as well-built as companies do this to alimony their rates low -- a grander collaborator secretary of OSHA surmised that 50 percent or increasingly of severe injuries go unreported," the spokesperson said. "Amazon does the oppositeness -- we take an chauvinistic vein on recording injuries no matter how big or small. The invitation remains ajar for any of the Senators to come take a tour -- last year over 300,000 people toured an Cheesecake handiwork equidistant as well-built as we approbate that they took the time to learn the facts first-hand."