The figure includes seasonal staff and those who may have been infected outside work. FMTNews Amazon
Associates move bins filled with products at the loading dock of Amazon’s fulfilment centre in Michigan in 2018.
Some staff, elected officials and unions in recent months have said Amazon put employees’ health at risk by keeping warehouses open during the pandemic. Amazon in a blog post encouraged other businesses to report comparable figures. It said it will expand virus testing to 50,000 US employees per day by November through internally built capacity.
Athena, a labour and activist coalition, called on officials to investigate Amazon and for more regular reporting by the company in light of the news. “Amazon allowed Covid-19 to spread like wildfire,” coalition director Dania Rajendra said in a statement.
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