By Amanda Breen At least 20,000 Amazon employees tested postive for COVID-19 last year—and the online retail giant claimed only 27 of those cases were contracted while employees were on the job. In October 2020, Amazon released a report to employees stating that the 19,816 postive tests were among the 1.4 million frontline U.S. employees of Amazon and Whole Foods. The Strategic Organizing Center (SOC), a coalition of four unions that includes the Teamsters union, the Service Employees Union, the Communication Workers of America and the United Farm Workers of America, aims to provide Amazon workers with representation, saying the company’s underreporting is akin to a “hidden pandemic.” SOC has asked the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to examine Amazon’s “disturbing pattern of misleading or grossly incomplete information provided to authorities around COVID-19 cases in its warehouses.” “Amazon, the nation’s second largest private employer, put workers’ lives at risk …