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A top Amazon executive has said there are a lot of "myths" about poor conditions in its warehouses.. Head of warehouse operations John Felton told The Sunday Telegraph that he doesn't agree with ...
At the warehouse, Jeff was a picker, fetching orders to be shipped to Amazon customers. A handheld scanner gun told him what he needed to pull and the exact aisle and shelf where he would find it. Since the Chester facility covers 1.1 million square feet , the equivalent of roughly 18 football fields, the right shelf might be just around the ...
A Senate investigation into Amazon’s practices found that nearly half of the company's warehouse workers get hurt around the Prime Day rush.. The report comes out on the heels of this year's ...
The interim report comes as part of the committee's ongoing investigation into Amazon's warehouse safety practices and is the first time, according to Sanders, that the company's internal data on ...
As the second-largest American employer [1] and the largest American e-commerce retailer with over one million workers and rapidly expanding, Amazon's warehouse labor practices have been subject to continued scrutiny, including reporting on work conditions, rising injury rates, worker surveillance, and efforts to block unionization.
In April 2022, OSHA said the warehouse “met minimal federal safety guidelines for storm sheltering.” [5] Amazon’s vice president of public policy, Brian Huseman, released a statement saying, “We have not identified any jurisdiction in the United States that requires storm shelters or safe rooms for these types of facilities.” [6]
An Amazon spokesperson said Thursday that the company intentionally builds its sites close to where customers are, schedules shipping windows and works with other large carriers, such as UPS, to ...
An Amazon warehouse protest on March 30, 2020, in Staten Island led to the firing of its organizer, Chris Smalls. Amazon defended the decision by saying that Smalls was supposed to be in self-isolation at the time, and leading the protest put its other workers at risk. [303] Smalls called the response "ridiculous". [304]