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• @alfredwkng Alfred on x

  @BryanDisagrees This detail about a pregnant Amazon warehouse worker having a miscarriage after managers refused to put her in a less strenuous role happens a lot more often than you'd think: https://twitter.com/...

• @aaronklein Aaron Klein on x

  For crying out loud, there are nearly 7 million jobs out there desperately searching for qualified humans. If you don't like where you work, have the class and self-confidence to resign and find something better. https://twitter.com/...

• @lmatsakis Louise Matsakis on x

  There have been a lot of great stories about injuries and safety issues at Amazon, but this one from the Atlantic and @reveal is particularly vital, shocking, and important. Read it before you start buying holiday gifts with Prime https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...

• @alfredwkng Alfred on x

  Amazon's Staten Island warehouse has an injury and illness rate three times as high as the average for warehouses nationwide. Great reporting by @BryanDisagrees: https://gizmodo.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @tayzonday Tay Zonday on x

  Amazon's injured workers are the predictable outcome of corporations whose organizational fiduciary duty is to make as much money as possible. Winston Churchill was correct: capitalism needs liberalism to reconcile private interest with public right. https://twitter.com/...

• @raeoflion Rachel de Leon on x

  For every worker @willCIR quotes in this story, there are probably two others who told him something similarly horrible but felt going on the record would jeopardize their future. I'm so grateful for those who did speak out, because these stories need to be heard. https://twitter…

• @byardduncan @byardduncan on x

  1/ This, like many of our investigations, has a BIG engaged reporting component. Let me explain ... Our analysis is based on records from 23 out of 110 @amazon fulfillment centers in the U.S. Here's how current and former workers can request the rest: https://www.revealnews.org/.…

• @add Andy Donohue on x

  We got the internal injury records from Amazon warehouses across the country. They showed injuries are sky-high. Then we heard all kinds of crazy stories from former workers, safety managers and a gov't whistleblower. @willCIR's new investigation: https://www.revealnews.org/...

• @shannonvallor Shannon Vallor on x

  The details here are horrifying, and I am not easy to shock these days. We can't go on fueling the greed that sees people as machines, only cheaper to break and replace. Despite already cutting way back on Prime for this very reason, I used it again just this week. No more. https…

• @david_rees David Rees on x

  This article is so bleak. Amazon is anti-human https://twitter.com/...

• @delrey Jason Del Rey on x

  The reporting in this great, detailed piece reveals that injury rates at Amazon warehouses are significantly higher than industry average. Amazon says that's because the company is more aggressive in recording injuries than other firms. Former employees in this piece disagree. ht…

• @nkulw Noah Kulwin on x

  the governor of indiana personally instructed an OSHA inspector to back off amazon after a worker was crushed to death by a forklift at an amazon warehouse https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...

• @ginavergel7 Gina Vergel on x

  >> “When you order something from Amazon and you've worked inside Amazon, you wonder, ‘Hey, is ordering my package going to be the demise of somebody?’ ” — former safety manager, Amazon. https://twitter.com/...

• @laurengoode Lauren Goode on x

  Read this before you click “Buy Now” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...

• @derekseidman80 Derek Seidman on x

  “Now, leaked company documents reveal that injury rates at the warehouse, known as JFK8, are over three times the industry average. What's unclear is if these numbers are at all anomalous compared to Amazon's other facilities.” https://gizmodo.com/...

• @wolfiechristl Wolfie Christl on x

  “Dixon had to scan a new item every 11 seconds to hit her quota, she said, and Amazon always knew when she didn't. Dixon's scan rate — more than 300 items an hour, thousands of individual products a day — was being tracked constantly, the data flowing to managers in real time” ht…

• @aurabogado Aura Bogado on x

  It's PEAK at @amazon right now. That means quick delivery for Prime members. But what does it mean for workers? There's so much in this story, from “water spider” workers, to people having to hold their pee in order to meet their rate, to literal death.... https://www.theatlantic…

• @reveal @reveal on x

  Our new investigation in @TheAtlantic: We obtained Amazon's internal injury records for 23 fulfillment centers. They show that the rate of serious injuries for those facilities was extreme - more than double the national average in 2018. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...

• @tim Tim Bradshaw on x

  Uber's latest statement suggests that the driver fraud problem that cost it its licence in London could have occurred elsewhere: “With regard to the specific issue in London, we have since implemented a series of technical and operational fixes, which have been changed globally.”

• @cripister Christopher Greene on x

  This obviously calls for a vigorous response from @HeyNowJO, who championed the deal, the Governor, who approved the tax credits, and the rest of SI's reps.

• @cripister Christopher Greene on x

  Both the rate and severity of injuries at the facility are extremely high, by Amazon's own accounting. pic.twitter.com/0EzcYPrY9k

• @fredbenenson Fred Benenson on x

  Another story from the automation-is-making-human-jobs- worse department: @BryanDisagrees reports on @Gizmodo that the injury rate at Amazon warehouses is dangerously high from working too fast and repetitively https://gizmodo.com/...

• @cfarivar Cyrus Farivar on x

  “While OSHA 300 and 300a data is not immediately available to the public, any current or former Amazon employee can submit a request for the logs in writing or by emailing the facilities or HR manager of their building” https://gizmodo.com/...

• @kyweise Karen Weise on x

  The great @willCIR got internal injury records from 23 of Amazon's 110 U.S. fulfillment centers & found the rate of serious injuries was more than double the national average for the warehousing industry https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...

• @gmgunion @gmgunion on x

  “When you crunch those basic numbers from Amazon's own submission, it's staggering [...] They have higher rates of injuries, and the injuries themselves are incredibly severe” https://gizmodo.com/...

• @bryandisagrees Bryan Menegus on x

  Scoop: Leaked OSHA doc's show exceptionally high and severe injuries at Amazon's Staten Island fulfillment center https://gizmodo.com/...

• @cripister Christopher Greene on x

  We knew that the Amazon warehouse on SI would bring poor working conditions. But we didn't quite expect them to be this bad. Remember: Amazon (owned by the world's richest man) got $18 million in tax credits from the state to abuse its citizens. https://gizmodo.com/...