The e-commerce giant is moving into the health care sector following its buyout of One Medical and it plans to merge with iRobot, the maker of Roomba vacuums.
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Amazon workers walk off job at major West Coast air hub
A walkout in Southern California over pay and heat safety shows how labor organizing has spread to yet another division of the e-commerce behemoth’s business.
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Our View: Amazon warehouse would be no boon to Maine
It’s OK to hope for better employment opportunities than those the ecommerce giant has to offer.
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Amazon sues admins of 10,000 Facebook groups over fake reviews
One of the groups called ‘Amazon Product Review’ had more than 43,000 members.
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Our View: Big tech spending big to fight needed change
Companies like Amazon want us to think that their market dominance is good for us. It’s not.
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Immersed in crisis, Peru neglects Amazon’s destruction
The worst year ever was 2020 when Peru lost around 420,000 acres of Amazon rainforest.
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Amazon threatened workers over union vote, labor officials find
Amazon is accused of threatening workers with minimum wage pay if they chose the union to represent them.
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Amazon fires 2 union organizers tied to first U.S. labor win
Amazon claims the “cases are unrelated to each other and unrelated to whether these individuals support any particular cause or group.”
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Amazon could stymie unions for years by going to the courts
The retail giant could delay successful unionization attempts by simply refusing to bargain, experts say.
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Amazon workers at second NYC warehouse reject union in a reversal of fortune
Amazon warehouse workers rejected a union bid on Monday, dealing a blow to organizers who last month pulled off the first successful U.S. organizing effort in the retail giant’s history.