Amazon's details on COVID-19 infections aren't good enough, workers and officials say
Courtenay Brown, who puts together grocery orders for online shoppers, says she's afraid of coming into work at her Amazon Fresh warehouse in New Jersey.
"For me right now in the warehouse, it's chaos, it's terrifying," she said, wearing a neon-colored safety vest and Amazon-branded hat. She spoke May 21 as part of an Amazon-focused online webinar hosted by CtW Investment Group, a part of the union coalition Change to Win. "There's really no transparency."
She called for her company to provide more detailed information on coronavirus cases and deaths, which Amazon so far has refused to do. The company does send its workers text messages and robocalls about new coronavirus cases at their local facilities and has confirmed coronavirus-related deaths of warehouse employees to reporters. But it doesn't provide national or statewide statistics on either of these figures. Other details, like the shift of an infected worker or their department, aren't disclosed.
Brown said that's left Amazon employees to independently compile the information the company disseminates in dribs and drabs to calculate nationwide coronavirus statistics so they can assess the risk of going to work and find hot spots in Amazon's logistics network.
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