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Amazon’s $4 billion commitment to warehouse worker safety hasn’t been enough to mollify some of its investors. Shareholder groups representing pension funds in New York and California are calling on the e-commerce juggernaut to give a more detailed breakdown of the impact of the coronavirus on its workers, according to CNBC. The groups will ask …
Amazon’s $4 billion commitment to warehouse worker safety hasn’t been enough to mollify some of its investors.
Shareholder groups representing pension funds in New York and California are calling on the e-commerce juggernaut to give a more detailed breakdown of the impact of the coronavirus on its workers, according to CNBC.
The groups will ask Amazon to release more information at its Wednesday shareholder meeting, including what impact the company’s safety changes have made in worker health.
“The impression is that we’re still not there yet, that there are still unsafe working conditions,” APG Asset Management investor Anna Pot told CNBC.
Amazon has declined to release an official tally of how many of its workers have been infected with the coronavirus, with senior vice president of worldwide operations Dave Clark saying in a recent “60 Minutes” interview that the number is not “particularly useful.”
Amazon has also refused to reveal how many of its workers have died from the virus, but has confirmed eight deaths that were reported in the news, including two in Indiana this month.
But more than a dozen attorneys general urged Amazon and its subsidiary Whole Foods to release a state-by-state breakdown of how many workers have contracted and died from COVID-19.
“It is incumbent upon Amazon and Whole Foods as businesses and employers not to worsen the emergency by failing to take every possible step to protect their employees and their customers,” officials from 12 states and the District of Columbia wrote in a letter to the companies earlier this month.
Amazon late last month announced that it would spend all $4 billion of its expected operating profit this month on coronavirus-related expenses, including personal protective equipment for its hundreds of thousands of workers, “enhanced cleaning” of its facilities, higher wages for hourly workers as well as “hundreds of millions” of dollars for Amazon to develop its coronavirus testing capabilities.
