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b'This week on Indy News we speak with:\\n\\n\\u2014Sean Petty, a pediatric emergency room nurse at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx. He is also an activist in the New York State Nurses Association, the union that represents 42,000 nurses in New York. In a March 18, 2020 interview with the Indypendent at the onset of the Covid pandemic in New York, Sean warned \\u201cI\\u2019m running out of words to describe how dangerous and scary all of this is.\\u201d With the Omicron variant sweeping across New York City and the country, he is alarmed once again.\\n\\n\\u2014 Amazon Labor Union President Chris Smalls and VP Derrick Palmer to update us on the struggle to unionize Amazon workers. On Dec. 22, for the second time in three months, Staten Island Amazon workers hand-delivered signed cards to a National Labor Relations Board office in Brooklyn, petitioning that the board authorize a union vote. The refiling comes after six weeks of furious organizing by the Amazon Labor Union after withdrawing their first petition. This time, the union is targeting only the largest facility on Staten Island, JFK8.\\n\\n\\u2014Julia Thomas, author of \\u201cRikers Island Transferees Now Held in Maximum Security Prison Where Drinking Water Tastes Like Sewage\\u201d from the recent Dec. issue of The Indypendent. Bedford hills, a maximum-security prison in Westchester is experiencing an influx of women and transgender and non-binary people \\u2014 all held pre-trial \\u2014 who are being transferred from Rikers Island. The controversial and inhumane transfers, which began in October, come after renewed calls to close Rikers and address the increasingly inhumane conditions on the penal colony.'