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UNCOVERED: Bernie sanders announces investigation into amazon s safety practices | History Defined

A truck arrives at the Amazon warehouse facility in the Staten Island borough of New York City on April 1, 2022. © Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, AP

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has opened a Senate investigation into Amazon’s warehouse safety practices, the latest in a series of probes he’s initiated against big corporations in his role as chairman of a committee that oversees health and labor issues.

Sanders, who has run for president twice and spent a political lifetime fighting corporations and monied interests over policies that he believes hurt the working class, sent a letter to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on Tuesday accusing the e-commerce giant of “egregious health and safety violations.”

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