Thread by @TheSOC

NEW REPORT: Amazon promised to be “Earth’s Safest Place to Work,” but our new report shows that injury rates at its facilities increased by a staggering 20 percent in 2021. (1/11)
#ProtectAmazonWorkers
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KEY FACTS:
Amazon’s overall injury rate INCREASED by 20% from 2020 to 2021, with nearly 40,000 injuries last year. (2/11)

Despite just employing a third of warehouse workers, Amazon was responsible for a staggering 49% of injuries in the warehousing industry last year. (3/11)

Amazon’s breakneck work pace results in high injury rates. There was only one year from 2017 to 2021 where Amazon’s injury rates declined, 2020 ― the only year Amazon temporarily relaxed its work speed pressures. (4/11)

In fact, this appears to be the FIRST TIME in OSHA’s history where an OSHA agency determined that a company’s pace of work, on its own, is so high that it constitutes a separate violation of the OSHA Act. (5/11)

ROBOTS: Amazon claims robots increase productivity and make facilities safer, but injury rates remain higher at robotic facilities than non-robotic facilities. (6/11)

“LIGHT DUTY”: Amazon has a “temporary light duty” program designed to push seriously injured workers to keep working while they recover. (7/11)

This may explain why Amazon warehouse workers who are seriously injured require substantially more time to recover than seriously injured workers in the rest of the warehouse industry. (8/11)

Of the Amazon workers surveyed by the SOC in 2021, 37 percent of those who had been injured reported that management pressured them to return to work before they felt ready to do so. (9/11)

Final point: Amazon can afford to fix this! Amazon’s earnings in the first 12 months of the pandemic exceeded the previous three years COMBINED. (10/11)

All of this shows that Amazon’s obsession with speed has come at a huge cost to its workers.

It’s time to hold Amazon accountable for the dangerous working conditions it has created and continues to ignore.

Take action to #ProtectAmazonWorkers here:
actionnetwork.org/petitions/end-…

Final point: Amazon can afford to fix this! Amazon’s earnings in the first 12 months of the pandemic exceeded the previous three years COMBINED. (10/11)

All of this shows that Amazon’s obsession with speed has come at a huge cost to its workers.

It’s time to hold Amazon accountable for the dangerous working conditions it has created and continues to ignore.

Take action to #ProtectAmazonWorkers here:
actionnetwork.org/petitions/end-…