Can you post some citation for these allegations? Maybe this is being widely reported and I've just missed it, but I'm not aware of positive evidence for the allegations you've made.
https://twitter.com/JonathanAhl/status/1469809376894541825 Governor says it happened during shift change. Active tornado warning in the area at the time.
Active tornado warnings happen here all the time - most people ignore the sirens and keep wandering around.
Now if the warehouse didn’t have designated tornado shelters …
Not sure why you're being downvoted, the events are already evidence that the facility was not shut down during a tornado that was known to hit the area. Workers were changing shifts when the tornadoes hit.
This site has a very anti-labor bias, as most people here expect to be running companies (or already do).
"This site" has a very strong dislike for politically motivated speculation masquerading as fact.
I slept through three tornado sirens last night. It was pretty wild. The first one, I thought it was a test. (We have tests every month on the 1st.) But it wasn't until a few minutes in that I realized it was for real. Then apparently I just... went to sleep? That wasn't the smartest decision I've ever made. It went off a couple more times. One strange thing was the realization that I had no idea where to turn for in…
You can use your phone as an FM/AM radio receiver. Tune to your local station.
> They didn't feel like they had the power to say You definitely don't know this. Please don't speak to the mindset of people that just died when you have no idea.
14 people died at an Amazon facility when they were asked to work during Hurricane Ida, why does this theory seem so far-fetched to you? https://gizmodo.com/new-york-amazon-employees-had-to-work-du...
because tornado;s are not hurricane, and you literally only get a few minutes notice... not days like you do with a hurricane
Unless you think every business should shut down every time there is a tornado watch issued, which hell they issue those like candy the entirety of spring and summer around here we would never get anything done if we shut down for every tornado watch
I slept through three tornado sirens last night. It was pretty wild. The first one, I thought it was a test. (We have tests every month on the 1st.) But it wasn't until a few minutes in that I realized it was for real. Then apparently I just... went to sleep? That wasn't the smartest decision I've ever made. It went off a couple more times. One strange thing was the realization that I had no idea where to turn for in…
Isn't this what emergency alerts are for on our phones?
No. There's for some parental custody battle 200 miles away. I disabled mine because I can't afford to have an audible alarm go off randomly in my line of work.
>The fall of TV means that in a situation like that, there isn't any "tune to your local TV station" type broadcast. All you get is a tornado siren. You didn't get a phone alert about it happening? I thought those were mandatory for these kinds of events, I think they even overrule some of the DND rules on your phone. I had something similar happen this summer, and I can't remember if I woke up from the alert and wen…
> You didn't get a phone alert about it happening? I thought those were mandatory for these kinds of events, I think they even overrule some of the DND rules on your phone. I turned those off at the system level because the local authorities would abuse them to announce allegations of kidnapping, or license plate numbers of people who supposedly shot at cops and other such things that are not a threat to my life or s…
I was getting "emergency alerts" for "COVID vaccine available in your area."
That may be really important information, but it doesn't rise to the level of an emergency.
Unfortunate that the title got cut off: "Six Amazon workers killed after tornadoes reduce warehouse near St. Louis to rubble" But the bigger story here is that despite multiple warnings of dangerous weather, the workers at this warehouse still ended up having to choose between risking their life or being fired/written up for refusing to come in. They didn't feel like they had the power to say "No, I won't work becaus…
I'm not sure that really is the story. Homes are not exactly safer, and there was a tornado warning for all of Madison county. Perhaps you've seen photos of what these things do to small wooden structures. Yes, their home was probably ok from this particular tornado, but I think that has more to do with luck than safety.
Sure their homes may not have been safer, but they would have had more opportunities to get to a shelter, or to find somewhere safe, as compared to having to be at work picking shelves in a warehouse built to the minimum spec/cost.
Can you post some citation for these allegations? Maybe this is being widely reported and I've just missed it, but I'm not aware of positive evidence for the allegations you've made.
Not specific to this situation, but workers were pissed when Amazon expected them to come in during Hurricane Ida, resulting in 14 deaths, so it's not out of the realm of possibility here. https://gizmodo.com/new-york-amazon-employees-had-to-work-du...
The deaths during Ida had nothing to do with Amazon or Amazon workers. There’s a story about illegal basement apartments that came out of that, but trying to link this to Amazon is goofy.
Unfortunate that the title got cut off: "Six Amazon workers killed after tornadoes reduce warehouse near St. Louis to rubble" But the bigger story here is that despite multiple warnings of dangerous weather, the workers at this warehouse still ended up having to choose between risking their life or being fired/written up for refusing to come in. They didn't feel like they had the power to say "No, I won't work becaus…
The article doesn’t say that. Where’s an article that says they had to come in despite the dangerous storms?
They weren't there on vacation. Obviously Amazon management chose to run the warehouse despite the weather.