Donald Trump hired David Keeling, who had been Amazon’s “director of global transportation safety” to oversee OSHA―even though a Senate report found that Amazon warehouses are twice as dangerous as its competitors.
Amazon is taking workplace surveillance to a dangerous new level. Just in time for an El Niño summer that’s projected to be one of the hottest on record, Amazon’s fleet of electric delivery vans got a software update that tracks times when drivers are out of their seats for 30 seconds, and turns off the air conditioning to save battery life.
May 20: Solidarity Session with “Ma” Mary Hill and Sultana Hossain
Mary and Sultana will share their own stories, reveal what it’s really like to be a worker organizing at Amazon, and talk about how all of us can join the fight against one of the greediest corporations in history.
Tell Amazon’s VP of Workplace Safety: Let your workers call 911!
Amazon workers say they can’t call 911 on the job without fear of retaliation. Amazon insists they can. Even if that policy exists, if workers or managers don’t know about it, how real is it?
While Jeff Bezos is strutting the red carpet at the Met Gala or touring the world in his megayacht, the people who create Amazon’s profits are told to “get back to work” even when a coworker drops dead next to them.
Blue Bottle Coffee, the upscale coffee chain, just fired Camden Castillo, a California barista and union leader, in the company’s latest round of retaliatory union-busting.
It’s hard to believe, but it’s true: it’s common practice at Amazon warehouses to prevent workers from calling 911 when someone is having a medical emergency.
