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For more than a decade, researchers at The SOC have produced different resources including surveys of workers and consumers and in-depth reports.
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Driving Danger in Illinois

Uber and Lyft have created a safety crisis for their drivers across country. For app-based drivers in Illinois specifically, these risks are especially high. In 2021 and 2022, almost 80 percent of app-based drivers in Chicago reported feeling unsafe at least once a month. Because of how Uber and Lyft structure their apps, drivers don’t…

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Amazon on Trial: Key Documents and Media Coverage

Click this link to watch the trial itself. The trial runs every day Aug. 7 – Aug. 10, starting at 9am PT, 12pm ET, and may run until 5pm every day. Aug. 7 will include Amazon workers and lower level Amazon Managers Aug. 8-9 will include the testimony of the front-line WISHA inspectors who led…

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Driving Danger: How Uber and Lyft Create a Safety Crisis for Their Drivers

The survey of over 900 drivers conducted last month by researchers at the Strategic Organizing Center—the largest-ever national survey of rideshare driver safety—details an all-out safety crisis for Uber and Lyft drivers, with workers of color the most deeply affected.   The survey shows that drivers are regularly threatened, harassed, robbed and physically assaulted, and…

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IN DENIAL: Amazon’s Continuing Failure to Fix Its Injury Crisis

Read the report.   While Amazon has enjoyed meteoric growth over the past few years, the company has failed to make meaningful progress in terms of worker safety, according to a new report from the Strategic Organizing Center. Despite CEO Andy Jassy describing warehouse worker safety as the company’s “priority number one,” injuries experienced by…

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The Injury Machine: How Amazon’s Production System Hurts Workers

Read the report in PDF format Workers at Amazon facilities sustained more than 34,000 serious injuries on the job in 2021—leading to a serious injury rate at Amazon warehouses that is more than twice as high as the rate at non-Amazon warehouses, according to a new report released by the Strategic Organizing Center (SOC). This…

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