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State: Ntl. Duff: More Injuries in Amazon's 'Safe America': [2019-12-12] |
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One reason it is hard to bamboozle me on the true state of working America is that before I became a lawyer, and then a law professor, I did 15 years of hard labor in working America. I've worked as a janitor, in warehouses, restaurants and on airport tarmacs — often as putative part-timer doing full-time work without full benefits. I've been hurt on the job. And none of it as part of a social science experiment. It was my livelihood, and I didn't know if I'd ever make it out. So let's just say I'm a different kind of law professor when I evaluate labor and employment issues. Here's a little sunlight revealing what is going on in a workplace governed by America's second-largest employer. If you thought nobody could make Walmart look like a safe employer, consider this joint Atlantic/Reveal expose:
The full story from November's Atlantic is here. Statistics and data are important, but sometimes (for whatever reason) they just don't line up with what any fool can see is truly unfolding on the ground. How much more do you have to see about what is going on at Walmart and Amazon, the No. 1 and 2 private sector employers in the U.S., to understand that it is not safe out there? Michael C. Duff is associate dean for student programs and external relations, and is professor of law, at the University of Wyoming College of Law. This entry is republished from the Workers' Compensation Law Professors blog, with permission. |