SEATTLE — Amazon illegally retaliated against two of its most prominent internal critics when it fired them last year, the National Labor Relations Board has determined.The employees, Emily Cunningham and […]
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In recent weeks, a heated discussion about whether Amazon’s workers must urinate in bottles because they have no time to go to the bathroom — a level of control that […]
Returning to the Office Sparks Anxiety and Dread for Some
Last fall, after some of the restrictions had eased in Germany, Trivago, a travel company based in Düsseldorf, let employees work remotely three weeks of the month and then spend […]
Contentious Union Vote at Amazon Heads to a Count
“Obviously, we want to win,” Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont said on Friday when he visited Alabama. “But I think a major point has already been proven. And that is […]
Google Aims to Be the Anti-Amazon of E-Commerce. It Has a Long Way to Go.
OAKLAND, Calif. — Google tried to copy Amazon’s playbook to become the shopping hub of the internet, with little success. Now it is trying something different: the anti-Amazon strategy.Google is […]
Amazon Walks a Political Tightrope in Its Union Fight
WASHINGTON — Amazon is aligned with the Biden administration on several fronts.It backs a $15-an-hour federal minimum wage. It has pledged to meet all the goals of the Paris climate […]
Organizing Gravediggers, Cereal Makers and, Maybe, Amazon Employees
A group of gravediggers in Columbus, Ohio, who just negotiated a 3 percent raise. The poultry plant that processes chicken nuggets for McDonald’s. The workers who make Cap’n Crunch in […]
Amazon Labor Fight: Wages May Not Ward Off Union
“From Faurecia to Amazon, it’s a big pay difference,” said Mr. Richardson, who now makes $15.55.Heather Knox, an Amazon spokeswoman, said that workers in Bessemer were eligible for raises every […]
How Amazon Crushes Unions
If safety was the biggest issue for the technicians, there were also concerns over pay equity — machinists said they were paid different amounts for doing the same job — […]
Who Is Making Sure the A.I. Machines Aren’t Racist?
Hundreds of people gathered for the first lecture at what had become the world’s most important conference on artificial intelligence — row after row of faces. Some were East Asian, […]