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"Workplace safety at Amazon's New Jersey warehouses is clearly not a priority, otherwise the rate of injury would be decreasing — not skyrocketing," Norcross said, asking for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to intervene. "I am calling on OSHA to conduct a prompt and comprehensive investigation into the work conditions at Amazon's New Jersey warehouses – and nationwide if needed – to identify deficiencies in Amazon's policy and culture that have led to these harrowing reports."
Norcross, co-chair of the Congressional Labor Caucus, told Truthout that the increase in funding is crucial to support the current burgeoning labor uprising.
"Our federal budget reflects our national priorities. It documents our values. These past few years have been incredibly tough on the working people of this country, and we've seen thousands organize to push for better wages and better working conditions in the pandemic's wake," Norcross said.
On Tuesday, Giordano and a number of other industry experts joined U.S. Rep. Donald Norcross (D-1) for a roundtable discussion in Camden. The group praised the state for including the Labor Peace Agreement requirement, and hopes other states will do the same in the future.
State lawmakers slammed Amazon over the report, and Rep. Donald Norcross, D-Camden, accused Amazon on Twitter of "putting profits over safety."
In a letter led by Rep. Donald Norcross (D-N.J.), 145 House Democrats and four Republicans ask Reps. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) and Tom Cole (R-Okla.), respectively the chair and ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee, to increase the NLRB's budget by at least $94 million for the next fiscal year.
Norcross told HuffPost that the NLRB was being "starved to death over the course of the last decade," and that workers trying to bargain collectively will ultimately pay the price.
"Nothing prepares you," said Rep. Donald Norcross (D-N.J.), "for meeting with the victims of war face to face."
Reps. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) and Donald Norcross (D-N.J.). met with employees from marijuana businesses in New Jersey, where legal sales for recreational use began last week.
Asked about the potential broader impact of unionization on drug testing policies in legal states, Norcross stressed that the "one thing having a union will absolutely do is give you a voice in the workplace—and give you the ability to have representation if you are accused" of violating a given policy.
In addition, the act would also place large fines on oil and gas companies who commit price gouging as well as create and implement a windfall profits tax to "discourage corporate greed during times of global upheaval and market speculation," Norcross said.