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By The Associated Press
Amazon Prime Day a major cause of injuries for warehouse workers
NEW YORK | A report released by Senator Bernie Sanders says Amazon’s popular Prime Day sales event has been “a major cause of injuries” for warehouse workers who pick and pack customer orders at the company’s facilities across the U.S.
The report released to coincide with the start of Prime Day on Tuesday says nearly 45 out of 100 workers were injured during the two-day sales event in 2019. An Amazon spokesperson says the company has improved its safety numbers since 2019 and disputes many of the report’s claims.
The report drew information from a year-long Senate committee investigation into Amazon’s safety practices and said peak shopping times result in the “highest weekly injury rates” for warehouse workers.
SpaceX, X headquarters moving from California to Texas
SAN FRANCISCO | Billionaire Elon Musk says he’s moving the headquarters of SpaceX and social media company X to Texas from California. Musk posted on X Tuesday that he plans on moving SpaceX from Hawthorne, California to Starbase, Texas.
X will move to Austin from San Francisco.
He called a new law signed Monday by California Gov. Gavin Newsom that bars school districts from requiring staff to notify parents of their child’s gender identification change the “final straw.”
Open Society Foundations restructuring complete, pledges $400M for green jobs
NEW YORK | Open Society Foundations revealed Tuesday its first new commitment after a years-long internal reorganization, pledging $400 million over eight years to support green economic development.
OSF is the philanthropic organizations that billionaire investor George Soros has built up since the 1970s.
OSF president Binaifer Nowrojee said the goal of the investment was to produce sustainable jobs and a shift toward clean energy in Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, Senegal, Malaysia and Indonesia. Nowrojee is a human rights lawyer from Kenya who has worked at OSF for twenty years. She took the helm of the $25 billion philanthropy after three years of buyouts, layoffs and structural changes.
—From AP reports
