Amazon is coming under increased pressure from unhappy employee’s around the country try…
In this case an employee who went public with issue was fired….
New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, sued Amazon on Tuesday evening, arguing that the company provided inadequate safety protection for workers in New York City during the pandemic and retaliated against employees who raised concerns over the conditions.
The case focuses on two Amazon facilities: a large warehouse on Staten Island and a delivery depot in Queens. Ms. James argues that Amazon failed to properly clean its buildings, conducted inadequate contact tracing for known Covid-19 cases, and “took swift retaliatory action” to silence complaints from workers.
“Amazon’s extreme profits and exponential growth rate came at the expense of the lives, health and safety of its frontline workers,” Ms. James argued in the complaint, filed in New York Supreme Court.
Kelly Nantel, a spokeswoman for Amazon, said the company cared “deeply about the health and safety” of its workers….
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Last week, Amazon preemptively sued Ms. James in federal court in an attempt to stop her from bringing the charges. The company argued that workplace safety was a matter of federal, not state, law….
“Where will your dues go?” reads a flier posted on the door inside a bathroom stall.
“They got right in your face when you’re using the stall,” said Darryl Richardson, a worker at the warehouse who supports unionization. Another pro-union worker who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution said of Amazon’s toilet reading: “I feel like I’m getting harassed.”
The stakes couldn’t be higher for Amazon, which is fighting the biggest labor battle in its history on U.S. soil. Next Monday, the National Labor Relations Board will mail ballots to 5,805 workers at the facility near Birmingham, who will then have seven weeks to decide whether they want the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union to represent them. If they vote yes, they would be the first Amazon warehouse in the United States to unionize….
There are reports today that Gov. Andrew Cuomo is now under FBI investigation related to his handling of the Coronavirus.
CG?
The NY Post story clearly states that the early Look at the nursing home actions is aimed at NYS staff, NOT Cuomo….
It is unknown if this is civil or criminal…
Yeah, staffers never turn on their boss in an investigation of course.
Did Oliver North, Bob McFarlane or John Poindexter ever turn on CG’s hero, Ronald Reagan?
If Ronald Reagan bore no responsibility for (in fact he denied prior knowledge of) Iran-Contra, then that might be the reason they didn’t turn on him.
I’m certainly not an unqualified fan of Andrew Cuomo, but one shouldn’t exclude the possibility that the same might be true of him, too.
Yeah, North said things about Reagan that were untrue,
Generally speaking though, when a public official is under investigation, the authorities start with the underlings as they work their way up the food chain.
At the minimum, it seems like Cuomo has some incredibly serious PR problems.
Amazon IS having labor issues….
Amazon illegally retaliated against two of its workers when it fired them after they publicly criticized the company’s climate policies and supported workers protesting warehouse conditions, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) found.
The NLRB found the allegations in the case had merit, and a regional director will issue a complaint if the case does not settle, according to the board.
The board’s determination about the firing of Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa was first reported by The New York Times. …
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