Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chair of the influential Senate committee on health, education, labor and pension, launched an investigation this week into the nation’s second-largest employer, Amazon, and the working conditions inside its warehouses.
On whether he would call Amazon’s Jassy or founder Bezos to testify in a similar hearing, Sanders said, “That’s an absolute possibility.”In his letter to Jassy, Sanders describes Amazon’s warehouse conditions as “uniquely dangerous.” He pointed to a recent report compiled by a coalition of labor unions using federal data that found Amazon’s serious-injury rate was double the warehouse industry average in 2021.
Kelly, the company spokesman, said Amazon has recorded a 23 percent reduction in injuries since 2019 and pointed to a past company statement about Amazon’s critics’ splicing the data “to suit their narrative.”“We’ve invested more than $1 billion into safety initiatives, projects and programs in the last four years, and we’ll continue investing and inventing in this area because nothing is more important than our employees’ safety,” Kelly said.
“We listened to our critics, thought hard about what we wanted to do and decided we want to lead,” Bezos, who was CEO of Amazon at the time, said in a statement. “We’re excited about this change and encourage our competitors and other large employers to join us.”
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