By Will Kessler
Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont sent a letter to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Tuesday announcing an investigation into “dangerous and illegal conditions at Amazon’s warehouses.”
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, chaired by Sanders, issued a letter to Amazon announcing an investigation into working conditions at company facilities, looking into claims of rampant workplace injuries due to unsafe conditions, according to the letter. Amazon disagrees with the accusations in the letter and pointed to its standing invitation for Sanders to tour one of its facilities in statements given to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“The company’s quest for profits at all costs has led to unsafe physical environments, intense pressure to work at unsustainable rates, and inadequate medical attention for tens of thousands of Amazon workers every year,” the letter reads. “Mr. Jassy, there is only one explanation for Amazon’s repeated failure to protect its warehouse workers: unacceptable corporate greed.”
Amazon denies the claims of the letter. “We’ve reviewed the letter and strongly disagree with Senator Sanders’ assertions,” Amazon spokesperson Steve Kelly told the DCNF.
“There will always be ways to improve, but we’re proud of the progress we’ve made which includes a 23% reduction in recordable injuries across our U.S. operations since 2019,” Amazon said in statements given to the DCNF. “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.”
Amazon has been the target of complaints of poor working conditions and low wages in the past, prompting the company to raise its minimum wage to $15 per hour in 2018, according to Reuters.
In recent years, efforts to unionize at Amazon facilities have seen mixed results, with a facility in Staten Island, New York, successfully voting to unionize while one in Bessemer, Alabama, did not.
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Bernie picking on Amazon? A symbolic gesture that matters not under the economic implosion unfolding in the USA and abroad. Now that we know Blackrock is behind the ESG propaganda agenda, Vanguard is another corporate agenda enforcer, JP Morgan involved in island shenanigans and cargo ships full of cocaine and humans, it’s all about to crater into the abyss from which it came.
Daniel 2: 40-44 And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron, inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything; and like iron that crushes, that kingdom will break in pieces and crush all the others. 41Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay. 42And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly [m]fragile. 43As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay. 44And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall [n]break in pieces and [o]consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.