The Minnesota House today is expected to vote on a worker safety bill pertaining to employees in large warehouses like the state's six Amazon facilities.
DFL Representative Emma Greenman says this is unacceptable for any workplace.
“Work shouldn't hurt, but for many Minnesota warehouse workers in Amazon warehouses, it does,” Greenman said.
Greenman says one in nine Amazon employees in Minnesota has been injured on the job.
“These high injuries are attributable to Amazon's model, how they manage their workers in warehouses, enforcing an excessive rate of speed under intense electronic surveillance,” claims Greenman. “Often that tracks and monitors workers everywhere they go.”
In a previously-released statement, Amazon said the company takes employee safety very seriously and that the vast majority of Minnesota Amazon employees say they're proud to work at Amazon and feel supported in their roles.
Greenman says the injury rate is four times higher than others in private industry and workers have been “pushing themselves to the brink” in order to reach quotas.
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