Workers at Amazon's Staten Island, N.Y., warehouse staged a protest demanding that the facility be closed following several confirmed cases of the coronavirus among staff.Workers at Amazon's Staten Island, N.Y., warehouse staged a protest demanding that the facility be closed following several confirmed cases of the coronavirus among staff.
In a letter to Amazon obtained by NPR, the office of New York's top lawyer Letitia James says the company may have also broken the state's whistleblower laws for firing a warehouse worker who helped organize a protest in Staten Island. "While we continue to investigate, the information so far available to us raises concerns that Amazon's health and safety measures taken in response to the COVID-19 pandemic are so inadequate that they may violate several provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health Act" and other federal and state guidelines, James's staff wrote in the letter, dated April 22.
The New York attorney general's office declined to comment. Amazon on Monday did not directly respond to the letter, but cited previous comments it has made on the criticisms. The company has maintained that workers' accusations were unfounded and that it has taken"extreme measures to keep people safe."
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
adia66 ? Tu partages pas ? Tu râles pas ? Sans doute encore un coup de la CGT non ?
vegix Okay NPR- here’s a little skinny on that; I called OSHA to see about stores that were not installing plastic barriers. They said “ Call the CDC. “ CDC has done no mandating of protection. Under THIS Maladministration- who’s Zooming who? noonesincharge😾at all.
Just a little suspicious of all the articles investigating companies 45 has fights with. Greeley COs JBS meatpacking had so many positive tests that the Stopped. Testing.
JohnCassidy Get ‘em
MattSavino1
HeathaT The courts are going to be tied up for years because of Trump. I may sue trump for stress lol
AOC You may proceed with a touchdown dance.
Get ‘em!!!
Seems par for the course for Amazon
They make money and that the bottom line!
Shut_downAmazon
If anything, safety measures are being too aggressively imposed in the warehouse where I work. Wearing facemasks should be optional, not mandatory, especially when we need air to haul boxes twice our size. Being light-headed puts me in at greater risk of accident.
Songsa93 encore la cgt bolchevique destructrice de boulot
So... Waiting for any GOP politician/media pundit willing to die 'for the economy' that the NY AG is some kind of Union slave or something 😏
OSHA has become useless. They'll have 10 heartattacks if there's a chair within 3 feet of blocking a fire extinguisher but 'cricket noises' with the way Amazon has built their warehouses to cram as many people in as uncomfortably as humanly possible.
that’s a majority of business since only now inspectors are doing their actual job. The old business models are a failure.
JayCarney Have you no shame? After working for BarackObama, you choose to work for a monster like JeffBezos ?
Close the warehouses until adequate safety measures are met!!
It’s always been this way. Why do we let egomaniacs like Bezos off the hook. breakupamazon boycottamazon
And I'm pretty sure they keep their workplaces diverse so they won't unionize to fight it
Amazon will be sure to lobby the ol Occupational Safety and Health Act right off the face of the earth in about two months.
And yet no one cares!!! Keep ordering your shit on Amazon and they’ll keep importing from China and slave their workers!!!!!!!
Take care of the situation. Bezos has enough money to fix everything. He has to start acting like an ethical business owner. The buck stops with him.
Oh no! OSHA is so basic.
vegix Of course they do. Bozo need another trillion dollars he'll never spend
vxx46 Haha all cuz they didn’t base in New York
Shame on I've if the richest company in the world. We should boycut them.
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But we all know that Jeff Bezos cares very deeply...
XMsChexX Come ON Amazon - you can and must do better! We love the service but NOT at the expense of the people who do the work fulfilling our orders. You can provide PPE, arrange distancing, provide sanitation crews around the clock. This is good business. Otherwise we WILL go elsewhere.
I''ve worked for Amazon 20 yrs ago. They need to buy contact suits for everybody.
Yeah, but what are they going to do about it?
NYGovCuomo and NYCMayor Isn’t it time to close Amazon warehouses until they follow guidelines set forth for all companies in New York?
No shit sherlock
An “on the job injury” if ever there was one. Workers Compensation Insurance is wholly inadequate to this crisis
Jelly, be mad at AOC not Jeff
amazon is also the same company that doesn't pay taxes?
Washington Post will be all over this story
slpng_giants
Lmao of course it’s in Staten Island
Could be worse. Amazon could have violated California Health and Safety Standards ... like Tesla did in Fremont. 😉
I really hope Amazon doesn't take life insurance policies out on their employees, that would be ugly.
In other news Amazon trading at $2,376.00.
Disgusting that a company as wealthy & successful would fire employees risking their lives during a pandemic. I stand w/ the protesters & whistleblowers at amazon. & refuse to patronize their co. until they treat their multiple of employees w/respect, safety, & appropriate pay.
Not surprised. Amazon cuts lots of corners so Jeff Bezos can get richer.
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Um..duh
what part of 'I do not give 2 fucks' from Bezos does any govt not understand? He'll pay ur petty fines, make it back in 3 mins, then he'll pay lobbyists to change laws. How u gonna contain the most wealthy man on Earth after giving his wife half of his money?
JeffBezos YOU ARE THE FACE OF amazon; BETTER STEP UP & BE MORE ACCOUNTABLE. Frankly, we’ve known for years you treat employees like s**t, which is why I’m one of the few who buys direct from retailers & avoids your co. Replace your “philanthropy” & greed with workers rights
Amazon doesn’t care about their workers. Jeff needs more $$$
So funny to see NY officials destroy NY jobs... with NPR's help.... while they reflexively believe an agitator with an agenda... who's posing as a 'worker'.
Get 'em!
Shhhhhocking.
MzDivah67 Firing a whistleblower is SOP at the WH so what's gonna happen next? A tweet of disappointment from nevillenancy teampelosi seems to be the harshest penalty the USA has to offer...
Now who's going to do something about it
Protesting is not the same as a whistleblower reporting wrongdoing. I am sure that Amazon had put out safety directions, but you can't make some people follow the directions. Some are just too stupid.
If true, another reason; never have & never will buy Amazon.
Amazon might have kept food coming to millions while making it easier to practice social distancing and here comes the government in all its wisdom to attack a business who has performed better than every single local international health institution
Amazon is behaving like WH? What do they have in common? No democratic mentality, it’s all about money
That’s why my TP hasn’t arrived yet!
Yeah, I'm kind of over Amazon. It was up to some shady shiz even before this pandemic.
Surely Bezos can afford to fix all the issues plus pay the fines and still be filthy rich🤷♂️
While you are at, can we get the millions Amazon stole from our us
Ruh roh Jeff ! You better fix this
wait, what?
Why does this feel like a shakedown? Because it is.
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