Amazon's Prime Day sale may be popular with users,
but it's highly dangerous for Amazon's workers.
That's according to a new report from the Senate Health,
Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.
The report says that based on newly public internal data,
Amazon's total injury rate during Prime Day 20/19 was 45
out of every hundred workers,
almost half their workforce, Senator Bernie Sanders,
the committee's chairman, said in a press release.
The incredibly dangerous working conditions at Amazon revealed in this
investigation are a perfect example of the type of corporate
greed that the American people are sick and tired of.
An Amazon spokesperson told CBS Money Watch that the report
ignores significant progress the company has made on workplace injuries
since 2019.
But a spokesperson for Sanders office said the committee relied
on 2019 and 2020 data because that was what Amazon
had provided to them.
Amazon Transportation Vice President Beryl Tomei cited automation as a
source of progress on this front.
We have over 750,000 robots across our buildings that work
collaboratively with our employees to help them with tasks like
lifting heavy.
Effects or reducing walking distances.
This in turn creates a safer and more ergonomic workplace
for them.
According to Publishers Weekly, last year Amazon turned a profit
of $30 billion.