A12 The BulleTin • Wednesday, april 28, 2021
Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021
TODAY
THURSDAY
TONIGHT
HIGH
76°
LOW
45°
Warmer with times of
clouds and sun
Record-breaking
temperatures
ALMANAC
Yesterday Normal
Record
66°
59° 86° in 1926
30°
32° 13° in 1970
PRECIPITATION
24 hours through 5 p.m. yesterday
0.00"
Record
1.21" in 1904
Month to date (normal)
0.04" (0.70")
Year to date (normal)
1.22" (4.05")
Barometric pressure at 4 p.m.
30.11"
SUN, MOON AND PLANETS
Rise/Set
Today
Thu.
Sun
6:01am/8:05pm 5:59am/8:06pm
Moon
10:37pm/7:09am 11:54pm/7:51am
Mercury 6:25am/9:06pm 6:26am/9:13pm
Venus
6:27am/8:48pm 6:26am/8:51pm
Mars
9:01am/12:42am 9:00am/12:40am
Jupiter
3:27am/1:52pm 3:24am/1:49pm
Saturn 2:48am/12:34pm 2:44am/12:30pm
Uranus
6:08am/8:12pm 6:05am/8:09pm
Last
New
First
Full
May 3
May 11
May 19
May 26
Tonight's sky: Uranus is at solar conjunction
(12:44 p.m.). Not visible.
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
UV INDEX TODAY
10 a.m.
Noon
2 p.m.
4 p.m.
4
7
7
4
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index ™ number,
the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 0-2 Low,
3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme.
POLLEN COUNT
Trees
High
Weeds
Absent
Source: Oregon Allergy Associates
SUNDAY
67°
37°
Rather cloudy and
remaining warm
MONDAY
58°
34°
Nice with clouds and
sunshine
A couple of showers
possible
EAST: Partly sunny
and warmer Wednes-
day. Partly to mostly
cloudy at night. Warm
Thursday; clouds
and sun.
CENTRAL: Mostly
sunny and warm
Wednesday. Partly
to mostly cloudy and
mild Wednesday night.
Yesterday
Today Thursday
Yesterday
Today Thursday
Yesterday
Today Thursday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Astoria
58/39/0.00 62/45/pc 60/50/c
La Grande
64/36/0.01 71/43/pc 81/49/pc
Portland
66/43/0.00 74/50/pc 78/48/c
Baker City
63/33/0.00 70/38/pc 80/43/pc
La Pine
62/23/0.00 73/38/pc 80/42/pc
Prineville
63/23/0.00 77/42/pc 80/44/c
Brookings
65/39/0.00 58/45/pc 58/44/pc
Medford
71/37/0.00 82/49/pc 86/48/pc
Redmond
67/27/Tr
76/40/pc 85/41/c
Burns
61/33/0.00 71/36/pc 79/39/pc
Newport
54/37/0.00 58/44/pc 56/46/c
Roseburg
70/39/0.00 82/46/pc 79/43/pc
Salem
68/41/0.00 75/47/pc 78/45/c
Eugene
69/35/0.00 75/45/pc 77/43/c
North Bend
62/41/0.00 60/44/pc 59/46/pc
Klamath Falls
61/24/0.01 72/37/pc 80/39/pc
Ontario
68/32/0.00 76/45/pc 83/50/pc
Sisters
63/24/0.00 77/44/pc 83/43/c
Lakeview
57/28/0.00 69/36/pc 78/37/pc
Pendleton
69/39/0.00 75/49/pc 85/53/pc
The Dalles
70/48/0.00 79/48/pc 84/49/pc
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice, Tr-trace, Yesterday data as of 5 p.m. yesterday
NATIONAL WEATHER
-10s
WATER REPORT
As of 7 a.m. yesterday
Reservoir
Acre feet
Capacity
Crane Prairie
47488
86%
Wickiup
103683
52%
Crescent Lake
22166
26%
Ochoco Reservoir
11420
26%
Prineville
90350
61%
River fl ow
Station
Cu.ft./sec.
Deschutes R. below Crane Prairie
77
Deschutes R. below Wickiup
878
Deschutes R. below Bend
62
Deschutes R. at Benham Falls
1220
Little Deschutes near La Pine
126
Crescent Ck. below Crescent Lake
14
Crooked R. above Prineville Res.
185
Crooked R. below Prineville Res.
189
Crooked R. near Terrebonne
49
Ochoco Ck. below Ochoco Res.
9
NATIONAL
Hood
River
541-683-1577
-0s
0s
10s
20s
30s
40s
50s
60s
70s
80s
90s
100s
110s
NATIONAL
EXTREMES
YESTERDAY (for the
In inches as of 5 p.m. yesterday
Base
71-106
0-179
0-158
0-0
27-57
T-storms
Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
Rain
Showers
Snow
Flurries
Ice
Warm Front
Stationary Front
Cold Front
Source: OnTheSnow.com
Japan
EarthCruiser
Continued from A11
Continued from A11
“Flour millers remained
conservative and did not
change their blending ratio
of raw material despite some
increased cost disadvantage
of U.S. wheat during 2019,”
Nakano said.
Japan’s Ministry of Fi-
nance year-over-year import
statistics do show an advan-
tage for U.S. beef.
Whereas overall imports
of chilled beef were down
5% from over 274,893 tons
in 2019 to just over 261,510
tons last year, U.S. product
imports decreased only 1.4%,
from almost 126,908 tons
to 125,157 tons. Conversely,
while overall frozen beef im-
ports decreased 0.5% from
almost 340,516 to just under
338,898 tons, imports of U.S.
meat jumped 14%, from al-
most 114,162 tons to almost
129,904 tons.
However, Yamashoji cau-
tioned against making an
assessment based on statis-
tics only.
“The COVID-19 pan-
demic is a dramatic event
and the impact is ongoing,
so simply looking at year-
over-year volumes is not a
thorough way to evaluate
the U.S.-Japan Trade Agree-
ment,” he said.
U.S. beef is heavily utilized
by Japan’s food service sec-
tor, which was hit hard by
COVID-related restrictions
and still is not operating un-
der normal conditions, Ya-
mashoji said. The growth in
imports of frozen U.S. beef
was partly due to consumer
demand for staples such as
beef short plate, of which the
U.S. is the dominant supplier
in Japan, he said.
“U.S. beef short plate
is heavily utilized by the
gyudon beef bowl restau-
rants and also sold thin-
sliced at retail, for convenient
and affordable home cook-
ing,” Yamashoji said.
Unless the overall demand
for imported beef increases,
imports of U.S. beef will not
increase significantly, said
Shiroh Ohashi, executive
director of the Japan Meat
Traders Association, a group-
ing of 30 meat-importing and
— exporting companies.
The chassis has an indepen-
dent 4-wheel drive developed
by EarthCruiser engineers and
special suspension systems,
allowing one to navigate ex-
tremely rugged terrain. Each
comes equipped with a winch
for those hard-to-get-out-of
spots, too.
Other campers or vehi-
cles, such as Sprinter vans, are
adapted from one use to an-
other. At EarthCruiser, the ve-
hicles are built from the ground
up or “from scratch” as Gillies
likes to say.
“Our engineers — many of
whom are outdoor enthusiasts
— design our trucks with users
in mind,” Gillies said.
When the pandemic struck
Central Oregon early last year,
EarthCruiser shut down its op-
erations for two months.
“It was a bad time for us and
our 35 employees,” Gillies said.
The pivot was to make a
smaller camper for the market.
“We wanted to build some-
thing more approachable for
the public from what we con-
sider our bigger trucks. A do-
mestic truck needs no intro-
duction. But we didn’t want to
make a compromise (or ret-
rofitted trailer). We wanted to
make sure that what we know
from years and years and years
of traveling the planet is to
bring an over-cab to the market
that integrally fits with a Ford or
a Chevy chassis.”
Since announcing its plans
for the Terranova, the low-key
shop tucked away at 61510
American Lane has received at
least 20-plus reservations for the
new camper. Base price starts at
$289,000.
The Terranova is a 4x4,
all-season cab-over that allows
outdoor enthusiasts to “live and
Yesterday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec.
Abilene
93/71/0.00
Akron
82/47/0.00
Albany
63/35/0.01
Albuquerque
66/53/Tr
Anchorage
55/33/0.00
Atlanta
81/59/0.00
Atlantic City
70/44/0.00
Austin
79/68/0.02
Baltimore
85/42/0.00
Billings
64/35/0.00
Birmingham
83/57/0.00
Bismarck
68/44/0.06
Boise
62/37/0.27
Boston
69/45/0.00
Bridgeport, CT 60/44/0.00
Buffalo
70/42/0.02
Burlington, VT
63/29/0.00
Caribou, ME
54/36/0.02
Charleston, SC 81/51/0.00
Charlotte
82/52/0.00
Chattanooga
84/55/0.00
Cheyenne
50/41/0.88
Chicago
87/65/0.00
Cincinnati
81/56/0.00
Cleveland
82/47/0.00
Colorado Springs 62/44/Tr
Columbia, MO
83/64/0.00
Columbia, SC
84/50/0.00
Columbus, GA
84/59/0.00
Columbus, OH
83/49/0.00
Concord, NH
68/31/0.00
Corpus Christi
81/73/Tr
Dallas
77/69/Tr
Dayton
82/58/0.00
Denver
56/44/0.38
Des Moines
84/62/0.00
Detroit
83/45/0.00
Duluth
41/34/0.00
El Paso
80/67/0.00
Fairbanks
50/31/0.00
Fargo
65/37/0.00
Flagstaff
41/32/0.78
Grand Rapids
78/49/0.00
Green Bay
52/40/0.00
Greensboro
81/51/0.00
Harrisburg
79/43/0.00
Hartford, CT
74/39/0.00
Helena
63/31/0.00
Honolulu
84/70/0.02
Houston
79/71/0.00
Huntsville
83/54/0.00
Indianapolis
82/61/0.00
Jackson, MS
83/57/0.00
Jacksonville
79/59/0.00
Today
Thursday
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
81/58/c
68/54/c
82/58/t
61/47/r
66/53/t
62/49/r
55/42/c
69/45/pc
49/36/s
46/34/c
84/65/pc
84/65/c
78/63/pc 70/55/pc
89/70/c
77/62/t
87/67/pc 82/58/pc
67/45/pc 75/53/pc
86/65/pc
84/63/c
72/35/c
71/41/pc
70/47/pc 79/54/pc
58/50/c
59/52/r
70/55/pc
62/55/r
65/49/t
56/45/r
61/49/t
61/48/r
62/36/pc
61/41/c
82/64/pc 85/68/pc
85/65/pc 86/65/pc
85/65/pc
83/60/c
56/34/pc
65/42/s
66/48/t
61/46/c
77/64/t
66/49/r
74/52/t
56/46/r
51/38/c
65/44/s
73/60/t
71/47/sh
87/62/pc 89/68/pc
85/61/pc 85/65/pc
82/61/t
66/47/r
64/47/t
60/46/r
85/74/pc
84/67/t
82/66/t
75/61/r
79/60/t
65/47/r
55/37/r
66/45/s
69/52/c
70/43/pc
77/50/t
60/43/sh
55/39/pc
55/35/s
67/48/pc
68/49/c
53/32/pc 51/31/pc
69/37/pc 62/40/pc
58/34/pc
69/33/s
67/46/c
58/41/c
57/43/c
61/39/c
84/64/pc 85/61/pc
86/64/pc
74/53/t
78/56/t
69/55/r
68/44/pc 75/51/pc
83/71/sh 83/72/pc
87/72/c
85/68/t
84/65/pc
81/58/c
75/58/r
64/46/sh
85/67/pc 86/64/pc
83/63/pc
88/65/s
Amsterdam
Athens
Auckland
Baghdad
Bangkok
Beijing
Beirut
Berlin
Bogota
Budapest
Buenos Aires
Cabo San Lucas
Cairo
Calgary
Cancun
Dublin
Edinburgh
Geneva
Harare
Hong Kong
Istanbul
Jerusalem
Johannesburg
Lima
Lisbon
London
Madrid
Manila
60/45/pc
73/61/pc
64/51/pc
93/67/pc
90/77/t
72/44/pc
74/64/s
60/45/pc
62/52/sh
63/48/c
72/59/s
77/61/s
90/64/s
62/39/pc
87/81/s
51/37/pc
49/32/pc
59/50/sh
79/61/pc
81/72/t
68/53/pc
74/60/s
76/54/s
69/61/s
65/52/pc
55/41/sh
65/51/t
91/79/pc
City
Juneau
Kansas City
Lansing
Las Vegas
Lexington
Lincoln
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Louisville
Madison, WI
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Newark, NJ
Norfolk, VA
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Orlando
Palm Springs
Peoria
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Richmond
Rochester, NY
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Antonio
San Diego
San Francisco
San Jose
Santa Fe
Savannah
Seattle
Sioux Falls
Spokane
Springfi eld, MO
Tampa
Tucson
Tulsa
Washington, DC
Wichita
Yakima
Yuma
Yesterday
Hi/Lo/Prec.
48/39/0.09
80/67/Tr
80/47/0.00
68/53/Tr
79/54/0.00
79/57/0.00
78/60/0.00
68/55/0.00
84/65/0.00
80/47/0.00
81/61/0.00
84/73/Tr
72/52/0.00
54/41/0.24
84/61/0.00
86/71/0.00
64/46/Tr
63/47/Tr
85/50/0.00
76/64/0.08
81/60/0.00
82/64/0.00
77/55/0.00
84/60/0.00
78/47/0.00
75/59/0.01
82/44/0.00
68/33/0.00
72/41/Tr
84/51/0.00
56/44/0.09
57/39/0.00
86/48/0.00
72/39/0.04
79/42/0.00
85/64/0.00
54/37/0.00
78/69/0.05
65/57/0.00
70/48/0.00
72/42/0.00
65/44/0.00
80/53/0.00
61/46/0.00
61/44/0.02
63/35/0.00
77/62/Tr
89/69/0.00
68/58/0.01
74/68/0.19
84/50/0.00
76/61/0.00
70/34/0.00
75/53/0.00
Today
Thursday
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
49/40/r
49/39/r
71/56/t
72/46/s
72/46/c
59/41/c
83/65/s
90/70/s
74/64/t
70/48/r
64/48/c
73/42/s
81/68/t
73/57/r
79/61/s
87/66/s
77/67/t
70/53/r
62/47/c
63/43/sh
83/70/t
76/57/r
84/76/sh 86/76/pc
55/45/c
58/45/c
62/45/pc 61/45/pc
83/68/pc
78/53/r
85/72/pc 86/71/pc
85/63/pc
71/58/t
85/65/pc
74/58/t
86/68/c
87/66/pc
75/56/r
71/50/pc
67/49/c
73/44/s
84/67/pc 89/70/pc
95/68/s
101/74/s
74/52/t
64/44/c
85/66/pc
77/58/t
83/64/s
94/69/s
84/59/t
64/46/t
57/46/r
53/44/c
69/51/c
65/54/sh
87/64/pc 88/64/pc
65/38/pc
69/46/s
73/45/s
84/51/s
90/69/pc 90/62/pc
65/48/t
56/45/r
85/51/s
88/50/s
75/62/r
68/49/c
64/46/s
71/54/s
90/70/c
81/65/c
71/57/s
77/61/s
70/51/s
65/51/s
78/51/s
77/50/s
54/33/sh
68/37/s
82/63/pc
87/67/s
67/49/pc
74/51/c
66/46/pc
67/44/s
68/49/pc 76/51/pc
71/60/r
69/47/r
88/71/s
88/73/s
75/54/s
86/63/s
74/61/r
74/51/pc
87/68/pc 83/59/pc
74/53/t
73/46/pc
77/47/pc 83/49/pc
88/59/s
97/63/s
98/73/0.00
82/60/0.08
61/34/0.00
39/34/0.26
78/59/0.40
82/73/0.00
106/77/0.00
70/45/0.27
48/27/0.00
59/36/0.02
66/41/0.00
79/73/0.40
66/55/0.13
72/43/0.00
70/64/0.02
67/32/0.00
68/50/0.14
67/59/0.12
87/77/0.02
48/28/Tr
71/56/0.07
81/73/0.40
72/62/0.00
67/47/0.00
55/41/0.27
58/46/0.00
56/32/0.00
50/28/0.00
101/77/s
82/61/t
60/48/sh
50/35/r
78/61/r
84/73/pc
107/78/pc
67/58/r
51/33/pc
56/45/r
66/43/pc
76/71/t
68/55/pc
78/46/s
73/60/t
63/45/c
65/47/pc
77/61/c
88/77/pc
47/30/pc
72/57/pc
75/68/r
74/64/s
72/63/pc
57/46/r
57/47/r
60/47/c
58/40/pc
INTERNATIONAL
48 contiguous states)
National high: 101°
at Zapata, TX
National low: 12°
at Bridgeport, CA
Precipitation: 1.37"
at Washington Island,
WI
SKI REPORT
Ski resort
New snow
Mt. Bachelor
0
Mt. Hood Meadows
3
Timberline Lodge
0
Aspen / Snowmass, CO
0
Mammoth Mtn. Ski, CA
3
Rather cloudy
TRAVEL WEATHER
Umatilla
80/47
Rufus
Hermiston
77/51
80/48
80/52
Arlington
Hillsboro Portland
Meacham Lostine
79/51
73/45 74/50
69/41
Wasco
69/44 Enterprise
Pendleton
The Dalles
Tillamook
67/43
77/49
75/49
Sandy
79/48
McMinnville
65/45
Joseph
Heppner
La
Grande
73/48
Maupin
Government
75/45
71/43
67/45
Camp
78/47 Condon 75/51
Union
Lincoln City
71/48
67/41
70/42
Salem
59/45
Spray
Granite
Warm Springs
75/47
Madras
75/45
Albany
65/39
Newport
Baker City
77/43
78/44
Mitchell
58/44
73/44
70/38
WEST: Partly sunny
Camp Sherman
72/49
Redmond
Corvallis
John
Unity
and warm Wednesday. Yachats
77/43
76/40
70/44
Day
Prineville
58/44
70/39
Fair and mild
Ontario
Sisters
77/42
Paulina
70/45
76/45
Wednesday night. Still Florence
Eugene 77/44
Bend Brothers 71/38
Vale
warm Thursday with
62/45
75/45
76/45
71/40
Sunriver
76/46
partial sun.
Nyssa
74/42
Hampton
Cottage
La Pine
76/44
Juntura
Oakridge
Grove
73/38
70/39
OREGON EXTREMES Coos Bay
Burns
74/41
77/49
79/44
Fort
Rock
62/42
71/36
Riley
YESTERDAY
Crescent
73/38
71/39
High: 73°
73/39
Bandon
Roseburg
Christmas Valley
Jordan Valley
at Hermiston
Beaver
Frenchglen
Silver
58/42
82/46
72/37
66/41
Low: 23°
Marsh
Lake
66/39
Port Orford
72/37
74/39
at Prineville
Grants
Burns Junction
Paisley
60/46
Pass
71/39
Chiloquin
72/43
87/51
Rome
Medford
72/40
Gold Beach
82/49
73/41
56/46
Klamath
Fields
Ashland
McDermitt
Lakeview
Falls
Brookings
70/41
80/51
72/37
65/39
58/45
69/36
Seaside
63/44
Cannon Beach
62/45
63°
33°
Times of clouds and sun
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Astoria
62/45
TUESDAY
62°
33°
OREGON WEATHER
TEMPERATURE
Grasses
Low
SATURDAY
74°
47°
83°
44°
Partly cloudy
Bend Municipal Airport through 5 p.m. yest.
High
Low
FRIDAY
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travel unbound” without sacri-
ficing performance, comfort or
livability,” reads the marketing
brochure. Like other Earth-
Cruisers, it can easily fit in a
shipping container to be sent
anywhere in the world.
“What we build has got to be
in sync with what the manufac-
turer had in mind,” Gillies said.
“It’s not about adding some-
thing with a host of new fea-
tures. We pay a lot of attention
to vehicle noise, how it moves
through the air, how it corners,
how it brakes.”
When one talks about a fully
integrated cab, that means the
remote controls on a key fob
or dashboard open the doors
to not only the truck, but the
camper, control the heating and
cooling, the water systems, raise
the camper roof. There’s even a
crawl space between truck cab
and camper so one doesn’t need
to go outside to access the liv-
ing area.
And the living area is de-
signed with comfort in mind
as well as being eco-friendly.
Its canopy provides 360-degree
views and the beds are designed
so one doesn’t have to duck
when sitting up, or entering the
living space. Much of it is pow-
ered by lithium batteries and a
solar panel for recharging elec-
trical circuits sits on top of the
canopy.
“The EC Terranova is the
culmination of years of expedi-
tion experience and field test-
ing across the globe. We used
this hard-earned knowledge
to create an incredibly capable,
well-designed over-cab expedi-
tion vehicle on a domestic one-
ton chassis, something already
proven, familiar and accessible
to consumers, and that can be
serviced with ease” said Chad
Knight, general manager of
EarthCruiser.
From the conception of the
idea to bring it to market took
just under 18 months. It was not
remarkable to Gillies who said
that, “We knew exactly what
we wanted it to look like when
we were finished and pieced it
together from there. We had to
bring our collective experience,
the network of suppliers, man-
ufacturers, the Ford engineers
and bring all that together. But
that’s the beauty of a small busi-
ness.”
It’s a source of pride for Gil-
lies, who has traveled the world,
to say when someone spots an
EarthCruiser at the Great Pyr-
amids or in the bush of Africa,
“Yeah, that was made in Bend,
Oregon.”
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Plus, he said, he’s looking
forward to visiting his parents
in Russia for the first time
since before the pandemic.
“There’s a lot of convenience,
having it on site. If it wasn’t
on site, I probably wouldn’t
have done it,” he said.
By the end of the clinic Sat-
urday, the company aims to
have given thousands of its
Washington warehouse and
delivery workers, contractors
and their families the first
shot of the Pfizer COVID-19
vaccine. A second vaccina-
tion clinic will open Tues-
day at a Spokane warehouse,
followed by additional vac-
cination opportunities at
other Amazon facilities in the
state, company spokesperson
Karen Riley Sawyer said.
The clinics fulfill Amazon’s
goal, expressed in a letter last
year to Gov. Jay Inslee, of vac-
cinating its front-line workers
as soon as they become eli-
gible. Amazon’s vaccination
efforts, which kicked off last
month in the Midwest, also
serve as a rebuke to Amazon’s
Mecca
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Nairobi
Nassau
New Delhi
Osaka
Oslo
Ottawa
Paris
Rio de Janeiro
Rome
Santiago
Sao Paulo
Sapporo
Seoul
Shanghai
Singapore
Stockholm
Sydney
Taipei City
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critics, who over the past year
have lambasted what they de-
scribed as the company’s in-
adequate safety precautions.
The experience of Ama-
zon workers during the pan-
demic emerged as a symbol
of the divergent realities for
the company’s office and
warehouse workers over the
past year. Tens of thousands
of Amazon’s corporate em-
ployees have been allowed to
work from home for more
than a year, the value of their
compensation packages ris-
ing as Amazon share prices
soared.
Meanwhile, the company’s
roughly 1 million warehouse
workers globally were still ex-
pected to report to their facil-
ities, where workloads surged
even as the virus ravaged
communities.
As concerns about the
spread of the coronavirus at
Amazon intensified, ware-
house workers stopped show-
ing up to work en masse.
The company rolled back
COVID-19 benefits for ware-
house employees, including
pay bumps and unlimited
unpaid sick leave.