In the face of the management coverup, workers took to social media to gather and compile their own statistics. Spontaneous walkouts and sickouts over the spring and summer were frequently triggered by workers’ independent discovery of a case that had been covered up by management. When workers demanded specific information regarding their workplaces, management insisted that the data was protected by privacy laws and refused to make it available. Throughout the pandemic, Amazon management has sought to conceal the extent of infections in order to lull workers into a false sense of security. While Amazon’s practice of forcing workers to sign such agreements dates back many years and is not limited to the PDX9 warehouse, these agreements take on a new dimension in the context of the coronavirus pandemic. This is the same warehouse where management is forcing workers to sign a broad “non-disclosure agreement,” which was the subject of a report last week in the Willamette Week newspaper. According to Amazon’s own records, which were analyzed at the end of last year by the Portland Mercury newspaper, “26 out of every 100 workers at PDX9 sustained an injury in 2018.” The PDX9 warehouse was, even before the coronavirus pandemic, among the most dangerous of all Amazon’s notoriously unsafe workplaces. The largest three are at prison complexes: the Snake River Correctional Institution in Ontario (550 cases) the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution in Pendleton (520 cases) and the Oregon State Correctional Institution in Salem (192 cases).
The outbreak at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse is the fourth largest in the state. Oregon’s health authorities reported last week that since the start of the pandemic, there have been 61 deaths and 11,139 cases associated with workplace outbreaks in Oregon. The outbreak at the PDX9 Fulfillment Center, an 855,000-square-foot building, is still considered “active.” He killed his parents prior to the attack and is serving a 111-year prison sentence.ĪP writers Gosia Wozniacka and Steven DuBois in Portland and Alina Hartounian in Phoenix contributed to this report.As of the end of November, more than 100 infections have been reported in a major coronavirus outbreak at an Amazon warehouse in Troutdale, Oregon. The Tuesday shooting was the first fatal school shooting in Oregon since May 1998 when 15-year-old Kip Kinkel killed two students and wounded 25 others at Thurston High School in Springfield near Eugene. It follows a string of mass shootings that have disturbed the nation, including one on Sunday in Nevada that left two Las Vegas police officers and a civilian dead.
The Oregon violence came less than a week after a gunman opened fire on a college campus in neighboring Washington state, killing a 19-year-old man and wounding two others. That weapon and arrest were not related to the shooting, Anderson said. The school is about 15 miles from Portland and its students come from several communities.ĭuring the evacuation of the school, authorities found another student with a gun and he was taken into custody. Reynolds is the second-largest high school in Oregon, with about 2,800 students. The Reynolds School District issued a statement mourning the loss of one of its students. "I don't want to send my kids to school anymore." "I thank God that she's safe," said Johnson, who has three younger children.
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