Nov 29 Amazon workers in Alabama get a do-over union election By Anne D'Innocenzio, Associated Press The move is a major blow to Amazon, which had spent about a year aggressively campaigning for warehouse workers in Bessemer to reject the union, which they ultimately did by a wide margin. Continue reading
Nov 26 Activists block Amazon warehouses in Europe on Black Friday By Kelvin Chan, Associated Press Climate activists have blockaded Amazon warehouses in three European countries. It's part of a global effort to pressure the ecommerce giant on one of its busiest days of the year to improve working conditions and end business practices that hurt… Continue reading
Nov 20 Sources: Brazil withheld deforestation data ’til COP26’s end By Débora Álvares, Associated Press Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro and Environment Minister Joaquim Leite both knew the Amazon region’s annual deforestation rate had surged before the U.N. climate talks in Glasgow, but kept results quiet to avoid hampering negotiations, according to three Cabinet ministers who… Continue reading
Oct 21 Regulator seeks transparency for payment systems of big tech By Ken Sweet, Associated Press In its first significant action under a new director, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is ordering Apple, Amazon, PayPal and other tech giants to reveal how their proprietary payment networks function. Continue reading
Oct 18 House committee threatens Amazon with criminal investigation into market dominance By Matt Ott, Marcy Gordon, Associated Press U.S. House lawmakers are threatening to seek a criminal investigation of Amazon, saying the tech giant has one "final chance" to correct previous testimony by executives on its competition practices. Continue reading
Jul 20 Amazon to end testing for COVID-19 at warehouses this month By Joseph Pisani, Associated Press In May, the online shopping giant said fully vaccinated warehouse workers could stop wearing face masks inside its facilities as long as they uploaded a picture of their vaccine cards to an Amazon worker app. Continue reading
Jul 10 Watch 11:59 This former steel mill used to employ thousands—how the site is adapting and creating jobs now By Karla Murthy, Sam Weber 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… Continue watching
Jul 06 WATCH: Pentagon cancels disputed JEDI cloud contract with Microsoft By Robert Burns, Associated Press 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. Continue reading
Jun 24 Teamsters union votes to make organizing Amazon workers a priority By Joseph Pisani, Associated Press 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. Continue reading
Jun 02 Amazon will no longer test job applicants for marijuana By Associated Press 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. Continue reading