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The online shopping boom that has turned Amazon into the world s largest e-commerce company has a dark side: the highest industry injury rate for workers who pack and ship the millions of products sent around the globe, according to a coalition of labor groups.The groups based their analysis, released Tuesday, on injury statistics reported by Amazon to federal regulators and by surveying the company s warehouse workers. Acco
stanley cup rding to their findings, Amazon workers are twice as likely to be injured on the job as e-commerce work
stanley cup ers for Walmart, Amazon s closest retail competitor. The injury rate for Amazon s delivery drivers mdash; who are classified as contractors rather than full company employees mdash; also have an injury rate that is 50% higher than drivers for UPS, the groups found. The company s obsession with speed has come at a huge cost for Amazon s workforce, reads the report from the Strategic Organizing Center. The SOC, formerly called Change to Win, is a coalition of four labor unions: the Service Employees International Union, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Communications Workers of America and United Farmworkers of America. In 2020, Amazon reported a rate of 6.5 injuries for every 100 full-time equivalent workers, according to the findings. That s more th
stanley cup an 50% higher than the rate for all U.S. warehouse workers, which was 4 per 100 full-time workers, and more than double the workforce average of 2.8. The SOC s Nlgw Starbucks to test concoctions mixing coffee and ice cream
Lumber Liquidators stock rebounded Thursday after CEO Rob Lynch defended the company and its products to investors -- but he also made a surprising admission.When 60 Minutes sent investigators undercover at three Chinese factories that produce laminate flooring for Lumber
ugg Liquidators, it exposed excessive levels of the cancer-causing chemical formaldehyde in the glue used to bind wood particles that make up the core of the laminated boards.At the time, company founder
salomon Tom Sullivan told Anderson Cooper the flooring complied with strict standards set by the California Air Resources Board, also known as CARB.
af1 We re never gonna sell something unsafe, Sullivan said.Employees at the factory told 60 Minutes a different story. I have to be honest with you. It s not CARB 2, a factory s general manager told investigators in a hidden camera recording, meaning it didn t meet the CARB safety standards.On a conference call with investors Thursday, Lumber Liquidators CEO Rob Lynch admitted CARB S preliminary tests had revealed high levels of formaldehyde before the 60 Minutes broadcast. What to do if you suspect formaldehyde in your flooring 02:33 We know that tests on some deconstructed samples have had elevated levels, but we believe that the results of d
