0230.json

{
    "id": 212,
    "date": "2019/11/25",
    "sources": [
        "https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/11/27/20985691/amazon-workers-black-friday-2019",
        "https://nypost.com/2019/11/25/workers-at-amazons-staten-island-warehouse-to-hold-rally-over-high-injury-rates/"
    ],
    "actions": [
        "open letter",
        "protest"
    ],
    "struggles": [
        "working conditions",
        "pay and benefits"
    ],
    "employment_types": [
        "blue collar workers",
        "inhouse workers"
    ],
    "description": "Over a hundred Amazon workers and their supporters gathered outside the facility to protest working conditions that they say only worsen as the e-tailing giant gears up to deliver a rush of packages ahead of Christmas and Hanukkah. 600 workers at an Amazon fulfillment center in New York signed a letter and protested working conditions. Amazon workers face injury rates over three times the industry average, and are asking for increased break time and better transit benefits.",
    "online": null,
    "locations": [
        "staten island-new york city-new york-usa"
    ],
    "companies": [
        "amazon"
    ],
    "workers": 600,
    "tags": null,
    "author": [
        "ericandrewlewis"
    ],
    "latlngs": [
        [
            40.61490055,
            -74.18364545152917
        ]
    ],
    "addresses": [
        "Amazon JFK8, 546, Gulf Avenue, Bloomfield, Staten Island, City of New York, New York, 10303, United States"
    ]
}