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Local COVID-19 metrics have dropped to where they were before the holidays, but it s no time for residents to let their guard down, says Public Health Director Stacie Saunders.
In a community update Feb. 23, she said that metrics are improving, but the community needs to keep practicing the three Ws. While we are seeing improvements in cases, this is not the time to cut back on the preventive measures that matter so much right now, Saunders said. Help us continue to fight back COVID-19 with wearing your mask, washing your hands and keeping your distance.
The county s current rate of 172 new cases per 100,000 residents per week represents a drop of 57% from the turn of the year, continuing a steady and consistent decline, she said.
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Feb 24, 2021
Amazon Workers Fight To Unionize Draws Help From Around The World
Labor groups across the country and beyond are joining the effort to create a union at an Amazon facility in Alabama, which would be a first in the U.S.
Roughly a hundred organizers have been calling workers from Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse in recent weeks, making the case for why they should unionize. The robust phone-banking operation reflects the high stakes for organized labor as workers at the facility consider forming the first Amazon union in the U.S.
The organizing effort extends well beyond the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), which would represent the facility’s employees. The phone campaign includes around 20 organizers on loan from the AFL-CIO, the influential labor federation that includes 55 unions. A dozen nurses who recently unionized their hospital in North Carolina also have been pitching on the effort, calling workers to tell them large-sc
Going into the new year, it seemed the family was done with COVID-19. We just rode out our quarantine, said Nickey Stamey, 41. I was, by far, the most symptomatic, but everybody else, the three guys did really well. We did our quarantine and went on with our lives.
On Dec. 28, they were finished with quarantine, and all seemed in the clear. I don t know, I didn t have like this deep sense of fear, she said.
Most of her concern was for her 73-year-old father. She had just lost her mother to COVID-19 on Dec. 8. Getting COVID on the heels of my mother having just died from it, I was very concerned for my father, Stamey said. I wasn’t as concerned for my husband and son, because they were not symptomatic and they seemed to be faring very well.