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CA takes Amazon to court to get info on how it's handling COVID:
"the company has been unwilling to provide to the California Department of Justice the information needed to adequately demonstrate that it takes the health and well-being of its workers seriously"
"the company has been unwilling to provide to the California Department of Justice the information needed to adequately demonstrate that it takes the health and well-being of its workers seriously"
CA AG wants to know "the nature and extent of Amazon’s coronavirus prevention efforts, including with regard to sick leave policies and cleaning procedures, as well as raw data on the number of infections and deaths at their facilities in the state." https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-becerra-petitions-court-compel-amazon-comply-outstanding
Previously, while acknowledging nearly 20,000 US workers got COVID, Amazon said it had a low infection rate. But its analysis was flawed: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-06/amazon-covid-19-study-is-faulted-for-failure-to-measure-progress (by @spencersoper)
We did a story about how Amazon was slow to provide protections: https://revealnews.org/article/inside-one-of-amazons-hardest-hit-warehouses-why-arent-we-closing-the-building/
Listen to this @reveal episode from April to hear an Amazon worker in Southern California describe the conditions: https://revealnews.org/episodes/pandemic-protests-and-profits/
