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Coronavirus in Amazon's Warehouses

There's wildcat strikes ; since the NLRB has been non-functional for 35 years, wildcat strikes are all that is possible. So far, one leader has been fired . I expect this will escalate to a full lockout. How are they going to find people to work in coronavirus hotspots? Additional reporting, as of May 22, 2020: Karen Weise of the New York Times reports on Amazon's Hazelton warehouse: In the less than two months since then, the warehouse in the foothills of the Pocono Mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania has become Amazon’s biggest Covid-19 hot spot. More employees at AVP1 have been infected by the coronavirus than at any of Amazon’s roughly 500 other facilities in the United States. A 60 Minutes television report by Lesley Stahl, How Amazon is handling the coronavirus pandemic , Amazon's Senior Vice President “Dave” Clark interviewed, along with several Amazon employees and contractors. Mr. Clark claims that the infection is not spreading at Amazon, refuses to