Community groups have attempted to wrangle commitments from Amazon related to local hiring and wages for around two years, but they have mostly stopped short of trying to keep the warehouse from opening.
, with total penalties in Illinois tallying up to less than $25,000.
The company also said it had reduced its rate of injuries requiring employees to take time away from work by 69% since 2019. It claimed its rate of such injuries was below the industry average. The company, which posted $514 billion in net sales last year, said it had invested $1 billion in safety initiatives from 2019 to 2022 and said it was investing an additional $550 million this year.
Neighborhood resident Maura Madden, left, and Anthony Stewart, of Black Workers Matter, tape a petition to the door during a demonstration outside a new Amazon warehouse in West Humboldt Park on Sept. 12, 2023. “If people get the jobs that they need, then it’d be less violence, and less crime in the area, because they have something to look for, they have hope,” she said. “They have something to go to every day.”A few hundred jobs at Amazon won’t be enough to turn the tide of disinvestment in a neighborhood such as West Humboldt Park, Theodore said.
Kelly, the Amazon spokesperson, said the leaked document “was an early draft, and it wasn’t appropriately refined or vetted, let alone finalized.” He declined to share Amazon’s current turnover rate. Over the past couple of years, that has become less and less true, said Carden, who works with the group Warehouse Workers for Justice. Workers at the facilities are coming from farther and farther away, Carden said.Advertisement
She said her office would “address these issues with the appropriate workplace safety measures, legislative and regulatory agencies toward Amazon if and when they should ever become necessary.” Organizing efforts at Amazon have proven difficult, in part because of the high turnover of workers there. Workers at a Staten Island warehouse voted to unionizeElections in Bessemer, Alabama, and Castleton-on-Hudson, New York, are also contested. An attempt to unionize a third New York warehouse faltered.
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