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Eight nooses have been found at the site within the past month.  The eighth noose was found "mixed in with and entangled with electrical cords," a police department press release said on Wednesday, per CNN. The cords had "not been used for more than two weeks and were being stored on a pallet amongst other electrical equipment on the floor," it said. Amazon and the site developer are offering $100,000 for information on how the nooses got there. The site was first closed down on May 20 after the seventh noose was spotted, so that cameras and other security measures could be put in place.

The workers say emissions from Amazon's massive warehouses are "disproportionately concentrated in communities of color."

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We'll soon meet in your inbox. Please wait... “I personally didn’t see the need for a union,” he said. “If I was being treated differently, I may have voted differently.” Brooks is one of almost 1,800 employees who handed Amazon a runaway victory in the company’s hardest-fought battle to keep unions out of its warehouses. The result — announced last week, with 738 workers voting to form a union — dealt a crushing blow to labor and Democrats when conditions appeared ripe for them to make advances. For some workers at the warehouse, like Brooks, the minimum wage of $15 an hour i...

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