📦 Combating Amazon's Warehouse Injury Epidemic

“Alexa: Work Shouldn’t Hurt!” Combating Amazon's Warehouse Injury Epidemic in CA

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Friends,

On Amazon Prime Day, June 21 at 5 pm PST, you are invited to join LAANE, Amazon warehouse workers, labor and community leaders, and California Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez for a town hall event. We will discuss Amazon’s use of high production standards and policing of time off task harms communities across California, and what you can do to help change these conditions.

RSVP by signing the petition in support of AB 701.

AB 701, introduced by Assemblymemer Lorena Gonzalez, would help protect warehouse workers from debilitating injuries due to dangerous work speeds and quota requirements.

Warehouse workers have long performed some of the most dangerous and back-breaking work, suffering job-related injuries at rates almost double the average across private industry—more so than in mining, forestry, and logging, or construction. The rapid growth of online shopping and on-demand delivery has supercharged the dangers for warehouse workers, bringing increasingly brutal work speeds and soaring serious injury rates, in particular at booming e-commerce giants such as Amazon and Walmart.

AB 701 would help protect warehouse workers by requiring employers to disclose quotas and work speed standards to workers and state enforcement agencies. It would prohibit employers from penalizing workers for complying with health and safety laws. AB 701 would also direct Cal/OSHA to create a standard for the industry to minimize injuries among warehouse workers and provide stronger rights and protections against arbitrary and abusive work quota systems.

We hope to see you Monday.

In Solidarity,

Nelson Motto
Director of Organizing, LAANE

LAANE is a leading advocacy organization dedicated to building a new economy for all. Combining dynamic research, innovative public policy and the organizing of broad alliances, LAANE promotes a new economic approach based on good jobs, thriving communities, and a healthy environment.