Amazon CEO vows to improve workplace injury rates

In his first letter to Amazon shareholders, CEO Andy Jassy offered a defense of the wages and benefits the company gives its warehouse workers while also vowing to improve injury rates inside the facilities.

A report released this week by Strategic Organizing Center, a coalition of four labor unions, found Amazon employed 33% of all US warehouse workers in 2021, but was responsible for 49% of all injuries in the industry. Jassy contested the report during an interview with CNBC Thursday morning, saying it was not accurate.

He argued unions could slow down change, and believed workers were better off having direct relationships with their managers, an argument the company has made in the lead-up to the union elections to persuade its employees not to unionize.