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Amazon Warehouse Workers Reject Union Bid in Alabama
Amazon appears to have enough votes to block a union effort at a warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. The company crossed the threshold to secure a majority of votes, with 1,700 warehouse workers voting against the union and 700 voting in favor. The National Labor Relations Board, which is overseeing the process, is finalizing the count of the remaining uncontested votes.
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Labor Board Says Amazon Illegally Fired Outspoken Workers
The National Labor Relations Board has found that two outspoken Amazon workers were illegally fired last year.
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Here's What It Costs to Work Remotely in 4 Global Hotspots
We break down what remote workers can expect to experience and how much they may pay to live in Bali, Barbados, Croatia and Jamaica.
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What to Know About the Amazon Union Vote
Nearly 6,000 Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, are deciding whether they want to form a union, the biggest union push in the online shopping giant’s history
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Amazon Jumping Into Health Care With Expansion of Telemedicine App
Amazon is making its first foray into providing health care services
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Labor Movement Targets Amazon as a Foothold in the South
The South has never been hospitable to organized labor
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Dallas ISD Teacher's Wishlist Filled to Help Students After Winter Storm
On Wednesday morning, there were bottled water donations outside Julian T. Saldivar Elementary School. Many who live in the apartment complexes around the school have been without running water since last month’s winter storm burst pipes and caused flooding inside their apartments. “The water gets taken very, very, very quickly,” said 5th-grade math teacher Katie Tate. Seeing that got...
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Amazon Changes New App Icon After Design Is Compared To Hitler Mustache
A new icon that Amazon rolled out on its mobile app has quietly undergone an alteration after part of the logo drew some comparisons to the mustache worn by Adolf Hitler. The new logo, which debuted in January, features a cardboard box design with a blue strip of tape on it. Some said the tape, situated above the company’s...
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Timeline: The Golden Globe Awards
Take a look at some of the key moments in the history of the Golden Globe Awards.
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NY Attorney General Sues Amazon Over Coronavirus Safety Protocols, Retaliation
New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit against Amazon over its coronavirus safety protocols and the firing of one of its outspoken workers.
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Dropshipping: How to Use Amazon and EBay to Become Your Own Boss
Solo online retailers who sell products without having to store inventory, called dropshippers, have been able to quit day jobs and become their own bosses.
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Future Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Was Jeff Bezos' ‘Shadow' for Months: ‘I Participated in All of His Meetings'
Amazon’s next CEO, Andy Jassy, once gave Jeff Bezos advice that led to Amazon Web Services. Jassy has since steered AWS to great success.
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Amazon Submits Plans for 350-Foot ‘Helix' at HQ2 in Virginia
Amazon has submitted plans for the final piece of its future home in Arlington County.
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Jeff Bezos to Step Down as Amazon CEO
Amazon announced on Tuesday that founder Jeff Bezos would be stepping down as CEO and transitioning to executive chair of the Amazon board.
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Jeff Bezos: I Succeeded Because I ‘Won a Lot of Lotteries'
For Jeff Bezos, growing a little online bookseller into e-commerce giant Amazon took hard work and ingenuity, but it also took something else: luck. “Amazon is one of the lotteries I won,” Bezos said.
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Can You Be Sent Home Without Pay for Having a Fever?
Some of the largest companies in the world have begun testing the temperatures of their workers. CNBC Make It spoke with an employment attorney to get to the bottom of what rights workers have.
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Harvard Lecturer: ‘No Specific Skill Will Get You Ahead in the Future'—But This ‘Way of Thinking' Will
To make it in today’s world of rapid changes and uncertainties, successful business leaders like Jeff Bezos prove it’s better to be a generalist, rather than a specialist.
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Dozens of Anti-Gay Groups Are Making Money Off Amazon's Charity Platform
Amazon’s charity platform is allowing dozens of anti-LGBTQ organizations to receive donations, according to a report published Tuesday by U.K.-based political activist group openDemocracy.
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MacKenzie Scott Says She Has Given $4.1 Billion to Charity
MacKenzie Scott, philanthropist, author and former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, says she has given away $4.1 billion in the past four months to hundreds of organizations as part of a giving pledge she announced last year
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Amazon Delivery Driver Robbed at Gunpoint in Fort Worth
An Amazon driver is uninjured after he was held up at gunpoint in Fort Worth.