Last month, a federal labor official who presided over the hearings ruled against the company, which has noted it intends to appeal.
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Amazon plans to hire 150,000 workers for holiday season
The world’s largest online retailer typically hires legions of temporary workers this time of year to help store, pack and ship items from its warehouses.
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Amazon cracks down on products it views as cannabis related
The tech giants have tended to allow products that are not ‘plant facing,’ but Amazon recently changed the artificial intelligence it uses to search for contraband and more businesses are getting booted.
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Labor board rebuffs Amazon’s attempt to scrap union victory
‘Today is a great day for Labor,’ Chris Smalls, a fired Amazon worker who now heads the union, wrote in a Tweet celebrating the decision.
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As Amazon grows, so does its eye on consumers
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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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.