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After two extra days for negotiations, lawmakers spent Sunday evening scrambling to pass a massive $900 billion Covid-19 stimulus package and a $1.4 trillion bill to keep the government funded through September.
A Company Made P.P.E. for the World. Now Its Workers Have the Virus.
Top Glove, the world’s largest rubber glove maker, has enjoyed record profits in the pandemic, even as thousands of its low-paid workers in Malaysia suffer from a large outbreak of Covid-19.
Workers finishing their shift at a Top Glove disposable glove factory in Klang, Malaysia. As the company enjoyed record profits this year, thousands of its low-paid workers contracted the coronavirus.Credit.The New York Times
Dec. 20, 2020
BANGKOK Day after day, as the pandemic gathered force, Yam Narayan Chaudhary stood sentry for 13.5-hour shifts at Top Glove, the Malaysian company that is the world’s largest disposable glove maker. Thousands of foreign workers, many from Nepal like Mr. Chaudhary, lined up as he checked their temperatures and waved them through to the factory.