The US Senator wants to know about the mammoth companies warehouse working conditions….
“Amazon sets an example for the rest of the country,” Sanders told The Washington Post in an interview about his decision to focus on the e-commerce giant. “What Amazon does, their attitude, their lack of respect for workers, permeates the American corporate world.”
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Post. Interim Post chief executive Patty Stonesifer sits on Amazon’s board…
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An investigation into workplace health and safety practices at Amazon — the e-commerce giant that has drawn attention for opposing union organizing efforts and for injury rates roughly double the warehouse-industry average — gives Sanders an outlet to push for accountability from one of the country’s most influential employers in a divided Congress.
Steve Kelly, a spokesman for Amazon, responded that the company had “received Chairman Sanders’ letter this evening and are in the early stages of reviewing it.” He said Sanders had an open invitation to tour one of Amazon’s warehouses….