Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Warehouse Worker Protection Act on Wednesday, after the bill passed the legislature this summer.
across industries are implementing ways to track their workers’ productivity as well.
Advocates for the bill say that it will provide workers with long overdue protections from punishing work conditions. “Regulations protecting workers in the warehousing industry have lagged far behind its rapid growth until today,” Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union , which had pushed for the bill, said in a statement. “The RWDSU has long prioritized the challenge of protecting warehouse workers from stress induced injuries and illness from limitless quotas and it’s why we pushed for the introduction of the Warehouse Worker Protection Act.
“Teamster members have spent decades fighting for strong safety standards in the warehouse industry, but Amazon’s growth is again putting workers in danger,” said Teamsters Joint Council 16 President Thomas Gesualdi. “This is a real victory in our continuing fight for rights and collective bargaining for all warehouse workers so they have a voice on the job and can protect themselves.”
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