75% of people support Amazon workers’ recent efforts to unionize their warehouses and fight for better working conditions.
ALU’s movement has been spreading quickly among Amazon workers. Just a week after their victory,that workers at over 100 warehouses had contacted the union about organizing their workplaces.
Amazon has taken great lengths to project a positive public image, and the poll shows that the company’s efforts have largely been successful; 90 percent of the people who shopped on the Amazon website over the past three months said that they have a favorable view of the company. However, among that group, 75 percent still favored workers’ union efforts.
It’s possible that Amazon’s reputation for subpar working conditions is still prevalent even among those who have a positive overall view of the company.
. According to Occupational Safety and Health Administration data, the company was responsible for 50 percent of warehouse injuries last year, despite only making up about a third of the country’s warehouse workforce.
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