A group of democratic state representatives asked their republican colleagues to support a draft law to provide employees of warehouse distribution in the areas of security and labor rights for jobs such as transparency about productivity rates.
In the South Wing steps of Capitol on Monday, the state MP Kim Schofield (D-Eeatt Point) said that the law enables employees to express themselves without fear of retaliation and to keep companies safe and competitive “.
“This is a cross -party question,” said Schofield. “When workers are protected, companies thrive,” she added to republican sensitivities in an appeal procedure.
House Bill 16 or the “Warehouse Workers Protection Act” would have to require employers such as Amazon sales center to enable the employees of written descriptions of all work speed product rates, including discipline measures and bonuses, and enables employees to check and apply for corrections. It would also prohibit illegal quotas and require 15 minutes of paid break time every four hours.
The draft law prohibits retaliation measures against warehouse workers who exercise all the rights defined therein, and enables them to submit complaints and request investigations by the Georgia Ministry of Labor. It also sets fines of 2,000 US dollars per workplace injury and 5,000 US dollars for repeated.
Ware workers throughout the south ask for better working conditions and urge to organize themselves unionized. Several workers from the Amazon ATL6 Warehouse in East Point followed the press conference on February 24th.
“We should no longer be afraid to comment and speak,” said Ronald Sewell, a 69-year-old ATL6 bearing worker. The Amazon ATL6 workers are not unionized union union union, but have staged rallies and sent in Amazon for secer conditions at the workplace.
Employers urge their workers to become “faster and faster” to meet increasing odds, while they refuse to go to the toilet, said Elizabeth Lester, a UPS recording worker who is unionized trade union union union.
“It is no different from a master who cracks the whip and says:” Move faster – no, you can't go to the toilet, “said Lester.” These are our fundamental rights for which we are now fighting here. “
Elizabeth Lester, a UPS recording worker who was unionized with the team stars, spoke about the need to protect the workers on February 24th. Photo: Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
HB 16 was transferred to the House Committee on Industry and Labor under the chairmanship of State MP Bill Werkheiser (R-Glennville). However, the Werkheiser committee has not yet determined a hearing with crossover tag.
“We are waiting for a date of the Chairman Werkheiser to allow a hearing,” one of the Co-sponsors of the law, MP Dewey McClain (D-Lawrenceville), told Atlanta Civic Circle. Werkheiser did not respond to e -mail questions, but said that HB 16 should not be listened to by e -mail in his committee internship this week.
If the draft law before the crossover day on March 6th does not run out of the industry and work committee, it dies. The crossover day is the deadline on which invoices from a chamber can be approved and sent to the other chamber.
How to get involved
- If you want to weigh in Georgia during the current legislative period, you can find out who your state representative and senator is here and contact you here.
- If there is a draft law in a committee, it is at the committee chairman to stop a hearing for this draft law. You can search for committees and find the contact information for your chairs and members.
