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The petition alleges that Amazon has failed to adequately comply with lawful requests from the state regarding information and documents related to the company s coronavirus protocols, including examination of its sick leave policy and cleaning procedures, as well as raw data on the number of COVID-19 infections and deaths at Amazon facilities across California.
“Amazon has made billions during this pandemic relying on the labor of essential workers. Their workers get the job done while putting themselves at risk,” Attorney General Becerra said in a statement. “It’s critical to know if these workers are receiving the protections on the job that they are entitled to under the law. Time is of the essence. Amazon has delayed responding adequately to our investigative requests long enough. We’re seeking a court order to compel Amazon to comply fully with our investigative subpoenas.”
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Biden picks show what he means by unity
Tuesday, December 15, 2020 |
Robert Knight - Guest Columnist Knight
Joe Biden s announced nominees for his cabinet – should he end up in the White House – look more like an Obama administration reunion from a time that division, not unity, seemed to be the popular mantra.
Some progressives are grousing that Joe Biden s cabinet choices aren t sufficiently Marxist. They want Bernie Sanders named as Labor Secretary, for instance. The Nation magazine is less critical but also wants more lefties.
You just can t please some people. The fabricated Office of the President-Elect has announced what amounts to a reunion of the Obama administration s radical crew, and then some.
When the coronavirus pandemic fades, Biden will confront a resurgent drug epidemic Lenny Bernstein A 2-week-old boy is being mentored in a neonatal intensive care unit s isolation room for opioid withdrawal at the CAMC Women and Children s Hospital on June 28, 2019, in Charleston, W.Va. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post) Even as the coronavirus pandemic rages, the U.S. drug overdose epidemic is surging, largely unnoticed but heading toward record levels in a year already marked by 300,000 covid-19 deaths. After a plateau that stretched from early 2018 to early 2019, overdose deaths resumed their rise in the second half of last year and are accelerating, according to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In April, they approached a rate of almost 80,000 annually, a 12.3 percent increase over a year earlier.