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US Amazon worker describes callous attitude toward safety as management reports $75 billion in 2020 revenue
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Barrickman
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Date: May 19, 2020 11:09PM
As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its fifth month, many workers on the front lines are still without the basic safety protections necessary to protect them against the deadly respiratory disease. For millions, the inability of the world’s most powerful governments and corporations to provide safe working conditions and basic necessities has exposed the rot of the capitalist system for all to see.
This contradiction finds one of its sharpest expressions at Amazon, a trillion-dollar conglomerate operated by the world’s richest man, where workers have played a key role in the distribution of commodities to families sheltering in their homes. Late last month it was reported that nearly 75 percent of all Amazon facilities in the United States have reported at least one confirmed case. Since testing is not widely available and many cases are asymptomatic, no scientific estimate of infections at Amazon has been compiled to date. Undoubtedly, the numbers of confirmed cases are underestimations of the actual amount of sickness.
Following the initial COVID-19 infection reported at the company’s Seattle headquarters in early March, the corporation, worth an estimated $1.2 trillion in market capitalization, did next to nothing to protect its employees.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/04/amzn-m04.html
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This contradiction finds one of its sharpest expressions at Amazon, a trillion-dollar conglomerate operated by the world’s richest man, where workers have played a key role in the distribution of commodities to families sheltering in their homes. Late last month it was reported that nearly 75 percent of all Amazon facilities in the United States have reported at least one confirmed case. Since testing is not widely available and many cases are asymptomatic, no scientific estimate of infections at Amazon has been compiled to date. Undoubtedly, the numbers of confirmed cases are underestimations of the actual amount of sickness.
Following the initial COVID-19 infection reported at the company’s Seattle headquarters in early March, the corporation, worth an estimated $1.2 trillion in market capitalization, did next to nothing to protect its employees.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/04/amzn-m04.html
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