John Nichols at The Nation reports U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders - who Chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, is speaking bluntly about Amazon’s disregard for worker safety.  Just before Christmas, the HELP Committee released The ‘Injury-Productivity Trade-Off’: How Amazon’s Obsession with Speed Creates Uniquely Dangerous Warehouses, a study based on more than 18 months of research by Sanders and Committee Staff into working conditions inside Amazon Warehouses.  The conclusions, as Sanders noted, were devastating.  “The shockingly dangerous working conditions at Amazon’s Warehouses revealed in this (160)-page report are beyond unacceptable,” he said. “Making matters even worse: Amazon’s executives repeatedly chose to put profits ahead of the health and safety of its Workers by ignoring recommendations that would substantially reduce injuries at its warehouses.  This is precisely the type of outrageous corporate greed that the American people are sick and tired of.”  Amazon did not take kindly to that observation.

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