More than 600 Amazon workers have been seriously injured or narrowly escaped an accident in the past three years, prompting calls for a parliamentary inquiry into safety at the online retailer’s vast UK warehouses.
GMB_union It’s is commonplace in industry to hide lost time injuries and seek to bully workers not to report them or take time off . Even GMB represented workplaces have this problem .
It’s pretty sad really because it’s not hard to run a safe system of work you just need a management that actually cares about people
I know people who have worked for Amazon, never heard a good word said about the place. Unfortunately the public prefers cheap products to thinking about the conditions that Amazon workers endure.
How many other manfacturing companies have high incidents. Hidden because its not Amazon.
Does Amazon not give the Guardian any of its ad spend? Ceaseless attacks on a business paying its employees well over the national living wage. It is only February but I am still waiting for the first positive article from the Guardian about anything this year.
Many years ago when they opened the Amazon warehouse in Doncaster there was a fatal injury and a near fatal injury. I've never been able to find out how they covered that up.
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