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
May 26 Watch 6:10 News Wrap: Biden directs US intelligence to redouble efforts probing origin of COVID-19 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… Continue watching
May 26 Amazon to buy MGM, the studio behind James Bond and 'Shark Tank' By Associated Press 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. Continue reading
Apr 26 Harris to chair new White House task force on worker empowerment By Associated Press 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. Continue reading
Apr 09 Watch 6:11 Amazon workers' push to unionize is over for now. Here's what it means for the future By Stephanie Sy 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… Continue watching