Workers at an Amazon fulfillment center in Riverside County filed complaints with regulators yesterday, asking for investigations into what they say are dangerous working conditions during the coronavirus pandemic. SamAugustDean reports:
An earlier version of this story stated the LGB3 fulfillment center was the first Amazon facility in Southern California to report an employee testing positive for COVID-19. It was the second.
That delay put workers at risk, the complaints argue, and is representative of what they characterize as Amazon’s slipshod response to the COVID-19 pandemic within its operations.The filings, compiled by the Warehouse Worker Resource Center on behalf of LGB3 employees, allege that Amazon never stopped operations to clean and disinfect the parts of the facility where the infected workers had spent their shifts and that the company has failed to adapt its operations to promote social distancing.
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