FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 16, 2019

Contact: Chelsea Connor | cconnor@rwdsu.org | 347-866-6259

NYCOSH RELEASES REPORT ON ADVERSE WORKING CONDITIONS AT AMAZON'S STATEN ISLAND DISTRIBUTION CENTER

(NEW YORK, NY) – Today, the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH) released a report, “Time Off Task: Pressure, Pain, and Productivity at Amazon” that highlighted the company’s unhealthy workplace practices at their Staten Island, New York facility.

“Amazon has a well-documented history of mistreating and dehumanizing its workers in the U.S. and around the world. NYCOSH’s report shows the impacts at just one facility, in just its first year of operating. Testing hundreds of thousands of workers physical limits across the country is the wrong approach to increasing productivity. Operating at speeds where ‘80% of workers feel pressured’ means Amazon needs to hire more workers, under more sustainable speeds that don’t put worker’s lives in jeopardy. Amazon needs to understand that human beings are not robots,” said Stuart Appelbaum, President of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU).

You can read the full report here.