That petition asks Amazon to place a "non-executive employee" on the board. Oxfam's resolution specifies the employee should be an hourly wage-earner. Oxfam's proposal pointed to reports of high injury rates and low wages for Amazon warehouse workers. In Washington state, for instance, Amazon fulfillment centers file so many compensation claims for injured workers that the state's labor bureau decided to charge Amazon higher insurance premiums than other warehouses. In Washington state, Amazon has the fourth-largest number of employees using federal food stamps. In Alabama, workers at an Amazon fulfillment center will soon vote on whether to form a union, a first for the company's U.S. workers. The unionization drive has largely focused on workplace safety and wage issues.