off. However, other European countries have other raised grievances, with Poland, Germany, Italy, Spain, England, and France all being represented and shown below. Poland workers claim an anti-strike law has made it impossible to negotiate a better salary. German workers have been fighting for over two years for a collective bargaining agreement. Italian workers have highlighted claims that Amazon routinely hires contract workers who aren't required to have benefits. Spanish Amazon leaders have unilaterally imposed working conditions when previous collective bargaining agreements had expired. English and French Amazon leaders have imposed demanding measures on time and efficiency leading to workers expected to process 300 items per hour and urinate in bottles, with penalties being given for sick days and pregnancies. Stop BEZOS Act On September 5, 2018, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA-17) introduced the Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies (Stop BEZOS) Act aimed at Amazon and other alleged beneficiaries of corporate welfare such as Walmart, McDonald's, and Uber. This followed several media appearances in which Sanders underscored the need for legislation to ensure that Amazon workers received a living wage. These reports cited a finding by New Food Economy that one third of fulfilment center workers in Arizona were on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Although Amazon initially released a statement which called statistics such as this "inaccurate and misleading", an October 2 announcement affirmed that its minimum wage for all employees would be raised to $15 per hour. Racial discrimination In 2021, current and former corporate workers, including Chanin Kelly-Rae, former diversity lead, went public about alleged systemic discrimination against women and people of color at the company. Also in 2021, multiple Black employees filed discrimination lawsuits against the company. In 2019, black software engineer Nadia Odunayo created The StoryGraph, which has since become the main competitor and rival of Amazon's subsidiary Goodreads. In contrast to Goodreads, which is a largely white-owned and white-managed company, Odunayo's The StoryGraph is owned and designed by a woman of color and remedied many of the issues that users complained about with Goodreads. Amazon and Goodreads have never publicly responded to The StoryGraph's existence, and have largely left the platform alone. Response to the COVID-19 pandemic During the COVID-19 pandemic, Amazon introduced a hazard pay of $2-per-hour, changes to overtime pay, and a policy of unlimited, unpaid time off until April 30, 2020. The hazard pay