{"id":2080,"date":"2012-05-25T17:47:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T21:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2012-05-25T17:47:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T21:47:25","slug":"after-protest-amazon-workers-finally-get-ac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/05\/after-protest-amazon-workers-finally-get-ac\/","title":{"rendered":"After protest, Amazon workers finally get AC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When protesters at Amazon.coms\u00a0AMZN annual meeting blasted the e-commerce giant for subjecting warehouse workers to triple-digit temperatures, company executives were the ones feeling the heat.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Jeff Bezos announced that the company will spend $52 million adding air-conditioning to its network of warehouses, the Seattle Times reported\u00a0and Amazon spokeswoman Mary Osako confirmed via email. The company did not provide any additional comment.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon was criticized last year after a local newspaper in Pennsylvania reported how workers at its warehouse there had to endure heat indexes of 110 degrees in the summer months \u2014 sometimes for as little as $11 an hour.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SOURCE<\/strong> \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bottomline.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2012\/05\/25\/11877532-after-protest-amazon-workers-finally-get-ac?lite\">Bottom Line &#8211; After protest, Amazon workers finally get AC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When protesters at Amazon.coms\u00a0AMZN annual meeting blasted the e-commerce giant for subjecting warehouse workers to triple-digit temperatures, company executives were the ones feeling the heat. CEO Jeff Bezos announced that the company will spend $52 million adding air-conditioning to its network of warehouses, the Seattle Times reported\u00a0and Amazon spokeswoman Mary Osako confirmed via email. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[1224,1223,1226,1227,1225,414],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2081,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions\/2081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}