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House Committee Investigating Amazon's Labor Practices:
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform has opened an investigation into Amazon's labor practices during severe weather, according to a letter the members sent to Andy Jassy, Amazon's chief executive.
"We are concerned about recent reports that Amazon may be endangering the health and safety of its workers, including requiring them to work in hazardous conditions during tornadoes, hurricanes, and other extreme weather conditions," indicates the letter, signed by the chair of the committee. [...]
The investigation will focus on the December tornado who hit amazon's delivery station in Edwardsville, Illinois, killing six people. Most employees at the facility were not direct Amazon employees. They were contracted delivery drivers, a complication that hampered the response when authorities could not easily determine how many people were at the scene.
[...] "Our goal remains to support our employees and partners, the families who have lost loved ones, the surrounding community, and everyone affected by the tornadoes," Amazon spokeswoman Kelly Nantel said Friday. "We will respond to this letter in due course."
What does YOUR workplace do in severe weather?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 06 2022, @05:23PM
And without those physical labor jobs, your JIT delivery of perishable foods, new office/computer supplies, and all kinds of other key physical goods and services would be unavailable, causing the virtual world to collapse just like our physical world currently is.
One of the biggest shams of 'my' generation (millenial plus) that was caused by the boomer/bro generation was the valuation of 'virtual' companies, because of how intellectual property laws were skewed since the 1970s-1980s. Companies producing billions a year in physical goods suddenly became small fish compared to the valuation of tech companies who essentially produced nothing, and then were used to dramatically push up the amounts of money being printed, allowing first the skew to billionaires, and now rapidly approaching the skew to trillionaires, when the entire global resource pool should only be a few trllion, no state should be more than a trillion (backed by resources+labor/services), and no individual should be topping more than a billion no matter their business, and certainly only at the very end of a very lucky AND skilled lifetime's worth of work.
But instead we have the societal shithole we have today based entirely on an imaginary reality that is going to collapse sooner or later, and leave us with a devastation worse than the Dark Ages.