Amazon "Fined" for Workplace Safety Violations

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Amazon "Fined" for Workplace Safety Violations

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OSHA will fine Amazon for warehouse safety violations for about $60,000. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. Watch TYT LIVE on weekdays 6-8 pm ET. kzfaq.info...
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"The U.S. Department of Labor plans to fine Amazon over $60,000 for safety violations regarding warehouse workers, according to an announcement on Wednesday. Departmental investigators cited the company for “failing to keep workers safe,” which it said was a violation of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.
The Department’s Occupational Safety and Hazard Administration (OSHA) inspected three warehouse facilities in Florida, Illinois, and New York, and issued hazard alert letters after finding that workers were “exposed to ergonomic hazards,” according to the press release."
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@ApolloRacer Жыл бұрын

A 60 MILLION dollar fine wouldn't even be enough for a company like Amazon. The amount has to provide an incentive to keep the company from doing it again, and make an actual effort to resolve the issue.

@joegillian314 Жыл бұрын

Fuck it. Just nationalize them as punishment

@SALESPRODUCTIONS Жыл бұрын

Simply do the math to see how ridiculous this it : 469 BILLION in revenue / 365 = $ 1, 284, 931, 506 Dollars in revenue per DAY. Divided by 24 hours = $ 53,538, 812 Dollars in revenue per HOUR. Divided by 60 = $ 892,313 Dollars in revenue per MINUTE. Divided by 60 = $ 14,871 Dollars in revenue per SECOND. SO - a $ 60,000 fine for purposefully injuring their workers is equivalent to 4.03 seconds of their profit.

@Hal_T Жыл бұрын

Oops, not quite. 4.03 seconds of their REVENUE.

@claymenefee6999 Жыл бұрын

Serious fines should always be a whole number percentage of a companies revenue.

@VirginiaMaker Жыл бұрын

When the only punishment is a fine, it means that it's legal for a price.

@thomaslarson459 Жыл бұрын

The fines should cost significantly more than it would take to fix the problems. That way companies have the incentive to fix the problems.

@joegillian314 Жыл бұрын

fine them 40 billion dollars, and then see if they shrug that off.

@blakewalker84120 Жыл бұрын

$469.8 billion in revenue, $60 thousand in fines. They were fined 1/7.830.000 of their annual income. That isn't even 1 millionth. It's about 1 eight-millionth. To put that in focus, if you make $100,000 per year, that's like getting fined 1.2 cents. 1.2 CENTS! Or another way to look at this: Amazon makes that amount of money every 4.03 seconds. So, the fines for mistreating their workers amounts to 4 seconds of income. Well done. I'm sure slapping such a massive 4 second fine on them will make them rethink their whole workforce strategy.

@gavriloking5637 Жыл бұрын

There should be specific fines laid out for specific crimes. For this violation Amazon and any other company should pay 10% of annual income.

@brianpowell6058 Жыл бұрын

Any fine for such violations should be daily for a week, if after a week the problem hasn't been rectified, the daily fine should be doubled and doubled week after after week ad infinitum.

@morrisdocking2839 Жыл бұрын

A friend of mine worked for Amazon for a few weeks as a package packer. They would route to him a pallet sized bin with 3-4ft high sides full of products. His first job was to find the high priority items in the bin first, which could be at the bottom. So he had to dig into it to find those items. Heavy items were often at the bottom of the bin. With sides that high, it is easy to imagine the awkward and back breaking position required to lift any item, let alone heavy items from the bottom of the bin. He didn't last long.

@franklinwilson8573 Жыл бұрын

SHOCKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@chuckharris4504 Жыл бұрын

$60,000 should be the annual income for hourly employees...not a fine for putting them in danger while working...!

@frankmoon9350 Жыл бұрын

It should be but Bezos needs another Penis rocket.

@user-fx4qz8pt3w Жыл бұрын

And that's at a minimum

@tyrongkojy Жыл бұрын

They'll justify firing a person by using the excuse they need to recoup those losses.

@profoundclarity8497 Жыл бұрын

doesn't Jeff bezos make like 18 million an hour....60k...is like a penny on the floor

@ComradeVissarionovic Жыл бұрын

Honestly, 60 million would not have even bothered Amazon. This is a joke.

@kolohe4169 Жыл бұрын

Amazon charges $140.00 per year for 200 million subscribers, 28 billion a year before they sell or deliver one item.

@MEETMagazine Жыл бұрын

Did they finally make Amazon pay taxes?

@anthonypineiro3107 Жыл бұрын

For real! they treated us like shit!! only care about productivity. then safety the building I work for I see multiple employees collapse, and if u work on the machine and the machine has tech problems because we need to meet rate an hour, that still goes against u even though it’s a mechanical issues. U will get a written up if your machine is being worked on because u can’t meet rate. An example book machines Amazon prints books once a customer orders we don’t have them in stock, we make it. Book machine are only meant to run for 12 hours but we use it for 24 hours and book machines constantly goes down if u don’t meet rate u still in trouble even if it’s tech. They at least have tech near by. The dock they will make u run, throw packages to a Gaylord instead of putting them in a pallet. By the way that’s a huge safety violation. they don’t give a dam. ( Gaylord are a huge 6ft box that u put on top of a pallet. for flat only their a train that goes around and fill the boxes your job in flats is when the Gaylord is about to be full then turn of the machine and pull out the Gaylord with a Jack. Now lanes are like when u waiting for your luggage from the airport but we get packages u put those packages to a pallet or a go cart. What management decides to do fuck pallets and go carts just put a Gaylord on top of the pallet and throw packages hopefully the box doesn’t hit somebody head for the numbers. Speed is everything. Gaylord are for flats only not for lanes. But numbers matter. Last year alone over 50% of all incidents was from the dock alone in my building

@joshschaufele208 Жыл бұрын

To put a billion in perspective: if you started counting right now nonstop no sleep it's gonna take 32 years before you get to 1 billion. So basically a person can't even count to a billion in a lifetime

@drewharrison6433 Жыл бұрын

That's true but, if you made $100 per hour, 2000 hrs a year and saved every penny, it would only take you 5000 years to save a billion dollars... So there's that.

@loriann1506 Жыл бұрын

3:10 Ana must be channeling me today 😂 The criminals are just so arrogant it’s astonishing!

@mikejunior80 Жыл бұрын

The laws are written in such a way to protect giant corporations. That's why it's extremely important to elect people who are going to protect the regular working person.

@ivanmectin2043 Жыл бұрын

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@Lord_Horker Жыл бұрын

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@jessetorres8738 Жыл бұрын

Before Covid19, I worked at a biodiesel plant in Central Texas, & there were 4 crews of about 2 dozen guys where our shifts were 4 12 hour days, 4 days off, 4 12 hour nights, 4 days off. The last 15-20 minutes of every 12 hour shift had the leaving crew filling the incoming crew of everything that happened, especially everything that went wrong or broke, including leaking pipes, broken glass jars, missing tools, tires going flat on forklifts, & so much more. This was important for 2 key reasons: 1) If something went wrong that got reported to higher ups, they could find out who or what caused it & if it could be fixed or needed to be replaced as soon as possible, & 2) It was a means of providing a safety check for the incoming crews of any potential issues they might face over the next shift. That company clearly cared more about keeping all of its 20-30 employees safe despite having a much smaller yearly profit margin the Amazon does.

@tophat2002 Жыл бұрын

All companies are afraid of medical lawsuits. 5 million dollars for a neglect broken arm. It's all about liability and blaming the victims later...

@philliphessel6788 Жыл бұрын

We need both direct action in forming unions and electoral pressure on politicians. All of us workers are in this together!

@Hal_T Жыл бұрын

The problem is: a lot of your fellow workers are Republican dimwits.

@warchiefttt64 Жыл бұрын

Now how is Jeff going to buy his next ship or house, OSHA got no heart.

@tevetanders9729 Жыл бұрын

Fine the big man a precentige of his profits.

@B_Squared Жыл бұрын

$60K!?! that's like a $0.01 speeding ticket! Does that fine even cover the cost of their investigation? WTF!

@konstantinkoch6114 Жыл бұрын

is that price tag from the 1850s?

@brandtaylor93 Жыл бұрын

Breaks down to making14k a second. They made the difference in the time to just say the sentence… ouch I’m sure they felt it

@dreembarge Жыл бұрын

Jeff Bezos spends 60K on a haircut.

@velshock Жыл бұрын

..and he’s still butt ugly, inside and out!

@SuperBallzee Жыл бұрын

In Oregon Amazon uses out-of-state electricians for new construction. The company makes so much money it's just cheaper to pay the fines that the state inspectors impose on them.

@davezad Жыл бұрын

They'll probably be able to write off the fine as a business expense on their taxes.

@amead78 Жыл бұрын

Or pass the fine onto the workers

@rvignalielko Жыл бұрын

Really. That is nothing

@AdamBladeTaylor Жыл бұрын

It's disgusting how little companies face for breaking the law. Fines should be based on a company's earnings. So for breaking these labor laws, Amazon should be paying 5% of a year's earnings. Not some tiny figure they make back in 2 seconds. When companies are force to pay up, then they'll change. Until that happens, this is just the cost of doing business.

@jessicas.6235 Жыл бұрын

469,800,000,000-60,000=😂 They can afford worker safety violations. Absolutely no pressure on the company. Especially since the 60,000 expense is one-time.

@haddow777 Жыл бұрын

I've worked in similar settings before. You quickly learn that these places are the type to insist on giving more than 100%. A lot of people will claim it's impossible, but it isn't. A 100% is how much a human body can exert itself in a safe a safe enough manner that it could sustain such activities over the long term. Giving more than 100% is to push yourself past safe limits to the point that such effort is wholely unsustainable. Office workers can do this too. How many office workers get burnout from just working endlessly to where their optical prescriptions double in a year and their family leaves them because they don't even remember who they are. In a physical setting like this though, everyone knows, everyone, that the human body simply cannot sustain such paces. The company insists on such paces because they simply don't care one ounce to maintain employees long term. Companies love turn over. With turn over, they can push people to unsustainable paces. It's like the company is extracting a health subsidy from people. They are trading their good health for the company getting extra productivity. Also, new employees get paid the least and are willing to take more abuse. It's perfect for them, unless your huge like Amazon, because they are going to soon have the issue that they've worked their way through everyone in the workforce. Amazon, doing it's part to damage the economy by injuring pretty much every worker in the workforce.

@EroticInferno Жыл бұрын

Exactly. Amazon, Walmart, etc does this on purpose. They want their workers to stick around for about six months and then move on. No raises, no chance for unionization, no issues if workers are constantly being recycled.

@markrutlidge5427 Жыл бұрын

There are 1.3 million people working for Amazon in the US (2022 numbers) so that works out to 22.3 cents per worker, that's how much the government thinks your safety and health is worth!

@joebrice1807 Жыл бұрын

What percentage is $60000 of 400 billion dollars? = .00015%. Effing ridiculous.

@thisname1071 Жыл бұрын

Me and my friends work at Amazon and someone sent this video and before I clicked I thought “Is this for back pain that I’m feeling right now?” And sure enough it is. My back has been hurting so badly, and it’s because our rate for stowing stuff is recorded, and if you’re below the rate, you get called down.

@LeighaThorne Жыл бұрын

Maybe make it $60,000 per driver/warehouse employee at high risk for injury and the fee should be paid to those employees directly

@dreamway9 Жыл бұрын

So basically Amazon looked under the cushions for this fine

@EroticInferno Жыл бұрын

60k? Amazon is going out of business 😢 RIP

@KO-pk7df Жыл бұрын

So who wants to go apply for a job at Amazon? Who has little other choice than to work for Amazon? What is the turnover rate of Amazon warehouse pickers etc, the ones who actually do the labor? Not the people who manage or crack the whip on these workers.

@Hau2Ru Жыл бұрын

Amount to not even barely a speck of a penny to Amazon🤦‍♂️

@spartanFox_LadyFoxGames Жыл бұрын

Amazon opened a last mile station near me in rural NYS. I was one of the people they hired during a 4 month period starting before the holidays. Beyond the monumental hell it is to work there. All 1,800 of us got laid off indefinitely January 2nd. Just to put that into perspective. The nearest town has a population of 2,300. So basically an entire town was put out of work. And we all worked to short of a time period to collect an ui. So yeah. Happy holidays.

@lobola956 Жыл бұрын

Good. Unemployment benefits should be abolished

@robinredbreast9992 Жыл бұрын

That's barely one emoyees annual income.

@justincavaliere1361 Жыл бұрын

Amazon releasing a press release like BP did in South Park. I'm sorry. We're soooorry.

@AlphaLibre9 Жыл бұрын

If the company is fined what profits they earned each year the problems occurred and by how many people reported it, I bet that would shape them up really quick.

@linwoodnymph6113 Жыл бұрын

Hell, Amazon's advertising budget for a day is far bigger!!!

@inaruboricua Жыл бұрын

Scandinavian countries' workers are protected by their UNIONS. Some unions are organized across the entire industry, others are across entire regions or nationwide, and they unite to force government to treat them right. 99% of politicians everywhere would rather serve the rich. Corruption is a universal reality, that's why many have given up and hope AI will do better since AI can't go shopping for private jets and yachts, or for sex slaves, drugs and spaceships.

@bridgetweaver2542 Жыл бұрын

How about $60K a day until all problems are completely taken care of and can be proven?

@thevision4734 Жыл бұрын

$60,000 is less than the bonus that a vice president with Amazon received in 2020

@Quayleman Жыл бұрын

They can eat that fine 7,272,727 times and they still have left over.

@jonblack6624 Жыл бұрын

not surprising , osha has never had any bite, funded by employers

@LostChildOfTime Жыл бұрын

By the time you finished reading this sentence, Amazon has made $60,000.

@loriann1506 Жыл бұрын

He should be getting fined $60 k per person he violated

@loriann1506 Жыл бұрын

WTH 🤦🏽‍♀️????

@loriann1506 Жыл бұрын

But bezos bragged about how he “doesn’t pay taxes “

@KittenKush420 Жыл бұрын

The fine should be proportional to the amount of money they make. Everything with amazon is BS. I don't use it ever.

@lyannatargaryen3223 Жыл бұрын

That's probably more than they paid in taxes but still ridiculous?!?

@philliphessel6788 Жыл бұрын

No doubt $60K is what Amazon can see as a mere cost of doing business in a way that actually maximizes profit. With such small consequences, even killing people can (and has) become just another part of business as usual.

@pete_lind Жыл бұрын

Just use RICO act , they do crime after crime and its organized ... organized crime .

@xplosiv211 Жыл бұрын

In 2021, Amazon profited around 3.8 million dollars...... An hour! $60k is my yearly salary and this company makes that in minutes. This changes nothing.

@DavidEdwards9801 Жыл бұрын

Not only are people getting hurt, but lets not forget the loss of life of those employees at the distribution center just outside of St. Louis

@msimon1984 Жыл бұрын

The equivalent of 60k is like fining someone $100 when they'll make 10k in the next 30 minutes

@jays7948 Жыл бұрын

not even 2 seconds actually, $469 billion a year is $35,000 per second

@msimon1984 Жыл бұрын

@@jays7948 well there you go

@Hal_T Жыл бұрын

If the European Union issued such a fine, it would be for hundreds of millions of Euros (or maybe a billion).

@dr4track1 Жыл бұрын

Agreed , eu is much more stringent with health and safety protocols and does not pass the buck.

@NobleSainted Жыл бұрын

And Jeff Bezos ran to his car ash tray, got the loose change within, and paid the fine. I mean, why even bother to fine them at all?

@michaelwagner8859 Жыл бұрын

Amazon will just write it off as a tax deduction...oh, wait do they even pay taxes???

@hunternedib1119 Жыл бұрын

They don't pay taxes because everything is a Deduction for Bazos, or whatever his name is.

@samsadeniz Жыл бұрын

Amazon pays billions of taxes. Read it's earnings report instead of watching fake news channel.

@BITCOIN_TO_1OOOO0OOOOOOOOOOO Жыл бұрын

They should be fine for the unsafe products they sell on their site.

@j0kiesmurf106 Жыл бұрын

This is so f-ing sick and disgusting. I am retired now, but I used to work in the construction industry and environmental. OSHA did not play around at all. In my time, you did not get a slap on the wrist for these violations. Especially when people had died. There was one instance where negligence spurred OSHA to slap fines that literally bankrupted the company. There was also jail time given to those responsible for worker deaths. WTF happened to change all that? GD scum bag republicans, that's what.

@Melpheos1er Жыл бұрын

With such a fine Amazon will fill for bankruptcy. I don't see how it can survive

@marcux83 Жыл бұрын

60k? whaaat? bezos is gonna deduct that from amazon taxes.. so he gets 60k refund :P

@blandoatmeal1273 Жыл бұрын

Laws, fines and punishments just weren't made for companies this big. It'd be like if speeding only came with a fine that was a maximum of 5k and you couldn't lose your license from repeat offences. The richest people would just drive everywhere at top speed because their time is literally more valuable than the fine.

@jamesf7602 Жыл бұрын

Cost of doing business

@loriparks8657 Жыл бұрын

Amazon is not the only Corporation company that needs to be fine there are others. And another reason why they laying off at these corporations they don't want their employees to go unionize they want to keep paying them low wages jobs. And they should fine them for every Warehouse that they own that has employees

@mathnerd97 Жыл бұрын

What was the 1978 case you referenced at the end?

@BroEastman Жыл бұрын

Sounds like a bribe

@RuseGuise Жыл бұрын

Someone recently died in a factory/warehouse while working here in Tijuana. I know friends who work for the company and were sent tons of e-mails because of what happened. I'm not sure how they are going to handle safety in the future, but I do believe these jobs are dangerous. By the way the company I'm talking about isn't Amazon, but you know they have similar factory/warehouse jobs

@jason4275 Жыл бұрын

_The people that place these fines should all be fired, this is corruption with in he U.S. labor department, they work for amazon._

@Actionman-ck4gz Жыл бұрын

They got lucky OSHA even investigated. I told them how I was forced to work in the sun during triple digit heat with no access to water or shade, check I got in trouble for taking too many breaks, I am entitled by OSHA standards 10 minutes of cooling off every hour I work in triple digit heat.

@ghostmanscores1666 Жыл бұрын

Time to eat Amazon!!

@future_teknokrat7585 Жыл бұрын

I want 1000 people here, who have never worked at an Amazon Logistics Facility, who has previous logistics industry experience, to go work at AMZ for 6 months. Come back and tell me about the horrible conditions.

@raiderdre4208 Жыл бұрын

I work in a fulfillment center...🙄 Our conditions are not horrible, the pay though is trash. Safety in our facility is the #1 thing they stress to us more than anything else 🤷🏾‍♂️

@ThradNevar83 Жыл бұрын

I have worked for Amazon and other warehouses and Amazon is the worst. They track your every move including taking a piss. Sorry but Amazon is truly trash. Haven't spent a dime on Amazon in 2 years cause of it. Cancelled my prime membership and everything.

@XxArchPrincexX 4 ай бұрын

That’s it! What a slap in the wrist.

@jodiebates Жыл бұрын

It’s because if they below to certain safety organizations it lowers the fine for them automatically. The other part is OSHA doesn’t have enough power to enforce anything. Bc if they wanted a million dollar fine. It can always be talked down, it is a racket

@LD-pw7oq Жыл бұрын

It's pennies to Amazon. We only allow what we allow others to do to us until we realize we do have the power to draw the line and say "This is enough abuse going on." The rich wouldn't be rich in the first place without the worker and it's why they ought to show more appreciation, more acknowledgement for Americans working hard for their company to succeed and make them wealthy! Americans should be getting a lot more in their salaries to keep up with rising food and rent for the sake of dignity in humanity!

@jason4275 Жыл бұрын

*Amazon Corporate knows, that 100% of amazon Warehouse workers are expendable and replaceable.*

@hunternedib1119 Жыл бұрын

Robots are coming and the monkeys are the first ones to be replaced.

@longQ1551 Жыл бұрын

Jeff Bezos has to wait a few seconds to go to space or buy another boat lol

@lawsonallen7741 Жыл бұрын

WAY More needs to happen.

@Ryansssssssssssss Жыл бұрын

Boycott Amazon

@philliphessel6788 Жыл бұрын

I don’t recall having ever bought anything from Amazon, but I will say that boycott is effective only in conjunction with organized labor. Sales are the capitalists’ incentive to employ labor in the first place, so simply removing them is most likely to put workers out of work. I think it’s wise to wait until an industrial unit’s labor union calls for it.

@hunternedib1119 Жыл бұрын

Great idea, let's put every Amazon worker out of work. Brilliant!

@drewharrison6433 Жыл бұрын

@@hunternedib1119 So a general strike by the workers is a better idea.

@kristofergobbe4838 Жыл бұрын

Alex Jones had to pay out 1. Something billion. Which I agree with. Shouldn't it be 64 billion for Amazon.

@NickaLah Жыл бұрын

Some sort of amount that makes a dent at least, Bezos net worth increases more than twice the amount of this fine... every minute.

@velshock Жыл бұрын

Yes

@FireBomberBassist Жыл бұрын

Wow. Even I could pay that fine. It would suck like crazy for me but I can do it. But Amazon? Wow man.

@lanitcohen8024 Жыл бұрын

I left a billion dollar company didnt feel.right me working there

@happyrelaxationmusic4627 Жыл бұрын

They need to revise the OSHA laws, they're pretty old.

@ValkyrieofNOLA Жыл бұрын

Be so won’t even air condition the warehouses…EVEN THE ONES N THE DESERT!!! They need to fine on a sliding scale. It has to be punitive enough to act as a deterrent.

@RVWKing Жыл бұрын

Amazon sucks as a workplace

@LeonardoAlexi Жыл бұрын

9:42 What was the Supreme Court case/decision in 1978 that allowed bribery in politics?

@divineboi97 Жыл бұрын

Aren’t they firing another 18,000 employees next month , just a rumor I heard wanna know if it’s true

@thisname1071 Жыл бұрын

They already are lmao two of my friends got fired :/

@ambustus1 Жыл бұрын

We could all help. Everyone stop ordering from Amazon. Let's do it. If Everyone stops there would need to have workers. So thousands can find a different job. Let's all stop. Please. Its would also help retail too.

@ambustus1 Жыл бұрын

@Hunter nediB I was being sarcastic. And no sir I don't.

@hunternedib1119 Жыл бұрын

@@ambustus1 Sorry!