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This former steel mill used to employ thousands—how the site is adapting and creating jobs now
The Bethlehem steel mill in Maryland was once the largest working mill in the world, employing 30,000 people at its peak in the 1950's. The collapse of the American steel industry forced the mill into bankruptcy, closing for good in…
WATCH: Pentagon cancels disputed JEDI cloud contract with Microsoft
The Pentagon said it has canceled a cloud-computing contract with Microsoft that could eventually have been worth $10 billion. The statement did not directly mention that the Pentagon faced extended legal challenges by Amazon.
Teamsters union votes to make organizing Amazon workers a priority
The Teamsters said that Amazon, the nation's second-largest private employer, is exploiting its employees by paying them low wages, pushing them to work at fast speeds and giving them no job security.
Amazon will no longer test job applicants for marijuana
The company, the second-largest private employer in the U.S. behind Walmart, is making the change as states legalize cannabis or introduce laws banning employers from testing for it.
In our news wrap Wednesday, President Biden ordered U.S. Intelligence agencies to redouble efforts to pinpoint COVID-19's origins, pressing China to cooperate. A tropical cyclone roared ashore in eastern India, forcing more than a million people to flee and killing…
Amazon is paying $8.45 billion for MGM, making it the company's second-largest acquisition after it bought grocer Whole Foods for nearly $14 billion in 2017.
The creation of the task force comes soon after Biden, who has long supported and aligned himself with labor unions, lent his backing to an ultimately failed effort for workers to unionize at a Amazon warehouse in Alabama.
Amazon is the second largest private employer in the U.S. with nearly 800,000 workers. But none of its facilities are unionized and the push to unionize from workers in Alabama is over — for now. Stephanie Sy speaks to Margaret…
Amazon crossed the threshold to secure a majority of votes, with 1,798 warehouse workers rejecting the union and 738 voting in favor, according to the National Labor Relations Board, which is overseeing the process.
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