Teamsters Demand Congress Pass Warehouse Worker Protection Act Following Prime Day Safety Report

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https://teamster.org/2024/07/teamsters-demand-congress-pass-warehouse-worker-protection-act-following-prime-day-safety-report/

2024.07.16

Year-Long Senate Investigation Reveals Harrowing Conditions in Amazon Warehouses

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(WASHINGTON) – Following a report on Amazon Prime Day by the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), Teamsters are reiterating demands that Congress pass the Warehouse Worker Protection Act (WWPA). The WWPA is a bipartisan bill that holds corporations like Amazon accountable for dangerous safety practices and abusive production quotas in the warehousing industry.

“This report confirms what we’ve all known for a long time – Amazon is abusing its workers to the point of physical harm just so it can squeeze more money from its churn-and-burn, bloodthirsty business model,” said Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien. “Worker health and safety can’t wait – this legislation needs to make its way through both chambers of Congress and be signed into law immediately.”

O’Brien also addressed the retail behemoth in his speech to the Republican National Convention last night.

“What’s sickening is that Amazon has abandoned any national allegiance,” he said. “Amazon’s sole focus is on lining its own pockets. Remember: elites have no party. Elites have no nation. Their loyalty is to the balance sheet and to the stock price at the expense of the American citizen.”

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