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Vol. 32, Issue 8 QUEENS/LONG ISLAND/BRONX/MANHATTAN February 19-25, 2021
In this Aug. 6, 2020 fi le photo, New York State Attorney General Letitia James takes a
question at a news conference in New York. Associated Press/Kathy Willens, File
By Nelson A. King
New York Attorney General,
Letitia James on Wednesday
filed a lawsuit against Amazon
over its failure to provide
adequate health and
safety measures for employees
at the company’s New York
facilities and Amazon’s retaliatory
actions against multiple
employees amid the COVID-19
pandemic.
In failing to maintain a safe
work environment by reasonably
protecting workers from
the spread of COVID-19, James
said Amazon violated New
York State Labor Law.
In addition, she said Amazon
unlawfully fired and disciplined
employees who objected
to Amazon’s unsafe work conditions.
“While Amazon and its
CEO made billions during this
crisis, hardworking employees
were forced to endure unsafe
conditions and were retaliated
against for rightfully voicing
these concerns,” James said.
“Since the pandemic began,
it is clear that Amazon has val-
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By Bert Wilkinson
By the end of this year, nearly
every Caribbean Community
nation, associate member
and neighbor of different languages
would have held general
elections for new governments
adding to the record breaking
year of 2020.
If the community was last
year hard pressed to cobble
together elections monitoring
teams with the challenges of
shuttered airports and grounded
airlines, mandatory PCR
COVID-19 testing and negative
results, the same might be true
for this year as several countries
are set to go to the polls in
the coming weeks and months.
By the end of this year, therefore,
most of the wider Caribbean
would have reelected
or picked new governments in
a 24-month cluster that easily
reminds the world that the
region is among the most democratic
on the planet.
For example, the 2021
regional elections season is
scheduled to begin this Friday
with voters in the Turks
and Caicos headed to the polls.
The island chain is an associate
member of CARICOM, still
being a British dependency.
Premier’s People’s Democratic
Movement (PDM) with
six of the 10 constituency seats
under her belt, will face up to
the Progressive National Party
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James sues Amazon for failing to
protect workers during COVID-19
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