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Friend, Showing up to work shouldn’t feel like gambling on whether you’ll end your day at the hospital or not. But, for thousands of Amazon workers all over California, that’s the daily reality. A US Senate investigation found that Amazon warehouses recorded a staggering 30 percent more injuries than the warehousing industry average in 2023.(1) While Amazon refuses to do anything to fix these staggering injury rates, workers aren’t sitting idly by -- they’re organizing! The Amazon Labor Union-IBT has published a Safety Bill of Rights, a set of demands written by rank-and-file Amazon workers based on their daily pain, injury, retaliation, and abuse on the shop floor.
Amazon is more profitable than ever.(2) Its chairman is the second richest man in the world. It has revolutionized how we think about online ordering. But when it comes to the safety of its employees, the company treats the astronomical rate of injury in its warehouses as the cost of doing business. No one should suffer a life-altering injury for the sake of next-day delivery. The commonsense demands laid out by workers include things many of us take for granted in our workplace, such as:
While the list of demands is basic, the implications of Amazon not meeting these demands are literally life-and-death. Courage members have a long history of standing with Amazon workers. We’ve participated in Black Friday boycotts and helped workers on strike. Now, it’s time for us to speak out again to ensure that Amazon does the bare minimum to protect the health and safety of its workers. Add your name today to show solidarity and support for the Amazon workers Safety Bill of Rights! Thank you for being in the fight! –Irene, along with Annie, Angela, Isidra, Cecilia, Jen, and Lindsay (the Courage team)
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