1/ Hi, @JayCarney. We read this recent @nytopinion piece with great interest.
We’d love to ask some follow-ups ...
We’d love to ask some follow-ups ...
2/ You say that your company welcomes scrutiny and is doing what lawmakers say the private sector should do.
Well, 15 senators, including @berniesanders and @senwarren, just called on @Amazon to make its injury records public.
What do you think?
Well, 15 senators, including @berniesanders and @senwarren, just called on @Amazon to make its injury records public.
What do you think?
3/ We spent some time scrutinizing Amazon’s injury rates at fulfillment centers across the U.S. revealnews.org/article/behind…
We found that, taken together, the rate of serious injuries for those facilities was more than double the national average for the warehousing industry.
We found that, taken together, the rate of serious injuries for those facilities was more than double the national average for the warehousing industry.
4/ Getting these records wasn’t easy. We relied on current and former employees, who have a legal right to obtain them. revealnews.org/article/help-u…
5/ Some got the records.
But Amazon often ignored employees’ requests or provided only partial records, despite the legal obligation to provide injury logs by the end of the next business day.
Why?
But Amazon often ignored employees’ requests or provided only partial records, despite the legal obligation to provide injury logs by the end of the next business day.
Why?
6/ We think it’s important for the public, consumers and workers to know the injury rates at ALL of Amazon’s warehouses.
But Amazon won’t release those numbers.
Would you be in favor of proactively making them public, as these senators have urged? documentcloud.org/documents/6772…
But Amazon won’t release those numbers.
Would you be in favor of proactively making them public, as these senators have urged? documentcloud.org/documents/6772…
7/ Also: Workers often told us the job’s speed demands were to blame for their injuries. The senators, citing our reporting in @theatlantic, called for a reduction in workers’ quotas and speed requirements.
What do you think of that proposal?
What do you think of that proposal?
8/ Finally, you said here that “injuries are woefully underreported by and large across the country.”
We also heard that from an Amazon spokesperson.
Her source: “a former assistant secretary of OSHA.”
We also heard that from an Amazon spokesperson.
Her source: “a former assistant secretary of OSHA.”
9/ But the thing is, that same former OSHA chief, @drdavidmichaels, looked at the Amazon injury rates we found.
He called them "alarmingly, unacceptably high."
So, regardless of whether other employers under-report injuries, is Amazon satisfied with its current injury rates?
He called them "alarmingly, unacceptably high."
So, regardless of whether other employers under-report injuries, is Amazon satisfied with its current injury rates?
