About 100 workers at an Amazon distribution center in New York said they plan to go on strike, claiming inadequate safety measures to combat the spread the new coronavirus causing the disease Covid-19. The workers at the fulfillment center in Staten Island are demanding that the site be sterilized and closed for two weeks, and that Amazon pay compensation to employees for days they missed work...
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