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.
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Woolwich family sues Amazon over fatal highway crash
Misty Fisher and her family filed a negligence lawsuit Monday after a delivery driver hit and killed her husband in Topsham in July 2020.
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Amazon workers in Alabama will vote again on unionization in February
The National Labor Relations Board called for a revote after discovering the e-commerce giant interfered in the election last year.
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Commentary: Organizing workers at Amazon affects workers everywhere
The retailing behemoth takes far too much for itself, while leaving employees and society with too little.
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Officials, expert zero in on construction of Amazon warehouse destroyed in tornado, killing 6
The e-commerce giant has 5 million square feet of warehouse space across about a dozen facilities in the St. Louis metro area, nearly all constructed like the building that collapsed.
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Amazon’s cloud-computing unit’s problems take down websites, services
Amazon reported that that programming interfaces at its data centers in the Eastern United States were ‘seeing impact.’
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Amazon accused of under-reporting coronavirus cases contracted at work
Of the almost 20,000 employees the company said contracted the coronavirus last year, Amazon maintains only 27 potentially caught it at work.
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Higher prices on Amazon cause a retail ripple effect
The phenomenon, which economists have dubbed the “Amazon Effect,” happens because rivals tend to follow Amazon’s lead to match each other on online pricing.
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Amazon extends ban indefinitely on police use of its facial recognition technology
The tech giant said in June that it would freeze the technology’s police use for a year.