Tell Congress:

"Protect Amazon workers and bring an end to Amazon’s dangerous
surveillance practices now!"

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John,

Earlier this week Amazon held their annual Prime Day event. 

While many in the business community celebrate this day as a crowning
achievement of corporate America, they completely disregard what makes
this day possible, a dystopian workplace surveillance system that
contributes to workers getting injured at two times the industry average.

Amazon created this punishing system to increase workers’ speed
or rate and to control their physical movements in increments of seconds,
a metric called time off task (TOT). Rate/TOT determines if there are
enough seconds to use the bathroom, for handwashing per COVID-19
guidelines, or for workers to practice social distancing on their way to
fulfill an order.

While Amazon claims that they use this information to "monitor workflow"
in reality, they use mass surveillance to control and discipline workers,
even determining when or if they can use the restroom.

Amazon has repeatedly used this data to retaliate against workers who
speak out and organize—particularly Black workers who spoke out to protect
their colleagues and communities during the pandemic.

Congress must propose legislation that will end workplace surveillance
like Rate/TOT and hold hearings to investigate Amazon’s abusive treatment
of workers.

[ [link removed] ]Stand with Demand Progress, The Nation Magazine, Progress America, and
DFA as we tell Congress to protect Amazon workers and bring an end to
Amazon’s dangerous surveillance practices.

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It has been shown that numerous injuries are caused by repetitive motions,
systematic work processes, and surveillance-driven speed-focused work.
Amazon relies heavily on all of these tactics in its warehouses and it's
why there was a record 24,000 serious injuries at Amazon facilities last
year.

When seeing what it is truly like inside an Amazon warehouse, you find
worker abuse and mass surveillance used to retaliate against any workers
that try to improve workplace conditions.

[ [link removed] ]Stand with Demand Progress, The Nation Magazine, Progress America, and
DFA as we tell Congress to protect Amazon workers and bring an end to
Amazon’s dangerous surveillance practices.

Add Your Name: [link removed]

Together, we can stand up against dangerous corporations like Amazon.

- Tre

Tre Graves
Campaign Organizer
Democracy for America




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