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Amazon shareholders demand more data on worker safety after 8 confirmed COVID-19 deaths

May 26, 2020

Via: Charged

Amazon shareholders have demanded that the company reveal more data about the steps its taking to protect workers after it confirmed eight have now died of coronavirus.

Ahead of Amazon’s annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday, a group of shareholders have called on the company to be more transparent about its protection of staff during the pandemic after a swathe of complaints and protests.

While Amazon has not disclosed the exact number of employees who have died of coronavirus since the start of the outbreak, it confirmed it was at least eight workers who had been reported in the media.

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