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…
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…
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…
Read the report in PDF format. Injury rates for Amazon-contracted delivery drivers shot up nearly 40% from 2020 to 2021, even as CEO Andy Jassy proclaimed the retail giant was keeping its workers safe, a new analysis of worker injury data released by the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration shows. “The Worst Mile” examines…
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…
A new report released by the Strategic Organizing Center (SOC) shows that Amazon, despite having announced publicly in October 2020 that it had identified nearly 20,000 COVID cases nationally among its employees, subsequently reported only 27 cases of “respiratory conditions” (the category in which COVID cases are reported) to OSHA for all of 2020. This…
Amazon’s Epidemic of Workplace Injuries Workers at Amazon facilities sustained more than 24,000 serious injuries in 2020, resulting in a serious injury rate nearly two times the non-Amazon warehousing and storage industry, the report released by the Strategic Organizing Center (SOC) shows. The report, which analyzes new data submitted by Amazon to the U.S. Occupational…
COVID-19’s Impact on Southern California Port Truck Drivers The spread of the COVID-19 virus has created massive disruptions in the US economy, while shining a spotlight on the working conditions of essential workers. As millions of Americans stay at home, workers in the logistics and transportation sector take on the burden of transporting essential goods…
