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The Worst Mile: Production Pressure and the Injury Crisis in Amazon’s Delivery System
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…
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…
SOC Complaint to the FTC Against Amazon, Inc. for Unlawful Deception Under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, 15 U.S.C. 45 (a)
COMPLAINT TO THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION BUREAU OF CONSUMER PROTECTION Washington, D.C. Against AMAZON.COM, INC. for Unlawful Deception under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, 15 U.S.C. 45 (a) Submitted by the Strategic Organizing Center December 8, 2021 Read the complaint.
Hidden Pandemic: Amazon’s Secrecy And Obstruction During The COVID-19 Crisis
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…
SOC Letter To The FTC On Petition Re: Proposed Merger of Amazon.com, Inc. And MGM
Click here to read the letter in PDF format. Via USPS and Electronic Mail November 22, 2021 Holly Vedova, Acting Director Bureau of Competition Federal Trade Commission 600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC 20580 antitrust@ftc.gov Before 12,560 people as of November 19, 2021. Dear Director Vedova, We are writing to provide…
SOC Letter to the FTC on Proposed Merger of Amazon.com, Inc. and MGM
Click here to read the letter in PDF format Via USPS and Electronic Mail August 11, 2021 Holly Vedova, Acting Director Bureau of Competition Federal Trade Commission 600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC 20580 antitrust@ftc.gov Re: Proposed Merger of Amazon.com, Inc. and MGM Dear Director Vedova, The Strategic Organizing Center (SOC) is…
Primed for Pain
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…
NCAA v Shawn Alston et al. Brief
The Sherman Act protects sellers of goods and services, including workers who sell their labor, from powerful purchasers. Gregory J. Werden, Monopsony and the Sherman Act: Consumer Welfare in a New Light, 74 Antitrust L.J. 707, 714 (2007). Senator Sherman himself stated that trusts and monopolies “regulate prices at their will, depress the price of…
Franchise Rule, 16 CFR 436, Comment, Matter No. R511003
The Service Employees International Union and Change to Win hereby submit an update of a petition we submitted almost exactly five years ago, requesting that the Commission investigate and address long-standing problems in the franchise industry. The Service Employees International Union unites two million diverse members working in healthcare, the public sector, and property services…
Byrd v McDonald’s Complaint
Plaintiffs, James Byrd, Jr. and Darrell Byrd (“Plaintiffs”), individually and on behalf of all other similarly situated individuals (collectively referred to as, “Class Members” or the “Class”), by and through undersigned counsel, hereby file this Class Action Complaint, based on Plaintiffs’ personal knowledge and upon information and belief as to the Class, against Defendants, McDonald’s…