There are many courses of action that Amazon should take to remedy their warehouse and labor issues. First and foremost, they should listen more to their employees about what changes they would like to see in the company and not the changes that they “think” they want. In addition, they should have external warehouse inspectors come in frequently to assess the safety of workers and any changes that need to be made to that specific warehouse. Furthermore, they cannot put profits over workers’ safety ever again, it is morally wrong. They need to have more explicit safety protocols in place for even the worst of circumstances. For instance, if Amazon had an efficient safety protocol in place when they got news of the tornado warning they could’ve planned accordingly by sending workers home. The ethical framework behind my reasoning is the Virtue framework. It’s simple, right and wrong are the product of character, morality is in the actor. The executives and supervisors who are forci
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform has launched an investigation into Amazon’s labor practices around severe weather events focusing on their Illinois warehouse where six people died in a tornado strike last winter. The committee is seeking documents and communication records from Amazon within the next two weeks, according to a letter signed by Reps. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) and Cori Bush (D-MO) and was sent to Amazon’s CEO Andy Jassy. The letter states that Amazon threatened to fire employees if they left work as the Tornado touched down on the area and that delivery drivers weren’t allowed to call drivers back without Amazon’s approval despite the tornado warning. The storm eventually hit the warehouse, which collapsed and killed six people. Furthermore, new evidence revealed that Amazon’s Illinois warehouse had support beams that weren’t anchored to the ground, which a critical violation of international building code. When the torna