In the span of a month this summer, four Amazon warehouse workers have died in separate incidents. A range of circumstances surround the deaths. Alex Carillo, 22, died six days afteran Aug. 1 forklift crashin Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Amazon expressed condolences to all the families of the deceased. Amazon spokesman Stephenson pointed out that the company’s warehouses have climate control. Still, workplace safety experts say the deaths raise questions. These are also not the first fatalities Amazon has seen in the last 12 months....

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AnAmazondriver’s task may seem simple: Get the package from the warehouse to you. Samantha isn’t the only Amazon driver who worries about making a pit stop. Amazon had alsomixed it upwith Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren over worker treatment and tax regulations in an unusually messy andpublic Twitter exchange. The company is also facing lawsuits over unpaid time workers spend in COVID-19 checks. Independent contractors, known as Flex drivers, work shorter shifts but at no slower pace....

There are a lot of Amazon delivery vehicles out there, and those emissions add up. Delivery EVs have other, less immediately obvious benefits, though. Driver comfort and safety are being considered more thoroughly. Business Wire Correction 7/25/2022: Fixed an incorrect date in the final paragraph. Business Wire

By almost any measure, Amazon is big. It’s valuedat around $900 billion, even after a recent global slip in retail. It’s the country’s second-largest corporate employer. It handles and shipsmore than a fifth of all packagesin the US. But CEO Andy Jassy favors a different way of framing Amazon’s magnitude. Hesaid it againin a Vanity Fair interview after taking charge of Amazon in 2021. As it happens, the Federal Trade Commission is conducting an antitrust probe of Amazon....

Taylor sought emergency medical care, getting stitches as well as rabies, tetanus and antibiotic shots. But he knows it could have been worse. “This incident has scared me,” Taylor said, “because that could’ve been me.” He wasn’t the only one. The drivers say Amazon doesn’t give them the tools to avoid dangerous situations. Additionally, Amazon says it will direct future deliveries to alternative locations, such as Amazon lockers. But some of these services are inconsistent when it comes to reporting dangerous dogs, drivers said....

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Tristan Dutchin was told he was fired for missing productivity targets, asreported earlier by Motherboard. Separately, six senior managers at the same warehouselost their jobs, according to The New York Times. Amazon faces a wave of employee organizing, though the outcomes have been mixed. In a separate vote at a different Staten Island warehouse, workers voted in April against joining the ALU. Other workers have formed groups to make demands directly of Amazon without voting on whether to join a union....

A look back at 2021 explains why the e-commerce giant is so anxious to get those messages out. But a federal labor official recentlyordered the result thrown outbecause Amazonallegedly interfered in the process. Amazon is expected to appeal. The union vote was by no means the only dramatic event in Amazon’s 2021. In February, company founderJeff Bezos announced he would step down as CEO. In July,Andy Jassy, a longtime Amazonian, replaced Bezos as the company turned 27 years old....

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