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July 17, 2024

Amazon Prime Day Resulted in Nearly Half of Warehouse Workers Becoming Injured
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A new Senate report finds that Amazon Prime Day results in a massive
spike in warehouse worker injuries. An investigation by Senator Bernie
Sanders's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee found that
Amazon Prime Day in 2019 led to a whopping 45% of Amazon warehouse
workers sustaining injuries. Bernie Sanders said of the findings,
"Amazon may be a $2 trillion corporation. Its owner, Jeff Bezos, may be
worth $215 billion. But that does not give them the right to put their
$36 billion in annual profits ahead of the health and safety of their
workers. This type of corporate greed must end."


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