After all, it’s not holiday magic that brings a product from your screen to your mailbox in 24 or 48 hours. It’s those 370,000 workers, who pay a steep price for those speedy deliveries in the form of serious injuries and even disabilities that can be directly traced to the relentless pace at which they are forced to work by the world’s leading retailer. The rate of these injuries has reached crisis levels.
Eric Frumin is health and safety director at the Strategic Organizing Center. Sheheryar Kaoosji is executive director of Warehouse Worker Resource Center.
The views expressed in this article are the writers’ own.
