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Accused of violating worker rights, SpaceX and Amazon go after labor board

5:00am November 18, 2024

SpaceX and Amazon are asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to find the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional. The federal agency is tasked with enforcing workers' right to organize.

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Amazon ordered to let workers vote on unionizing -- for the 3rd time

7:13pm November 06, 2024

A federal administrative law judge says Amazon interfered in the last election on unionization at its warehouse in Bessemer, Ala.

Rain is finally coming to the drought-stricken Amazon. But it may not be enough

5:00am October 30, 2024

The world’s longest river is at its lowest levels after a long drought. That's left the Amazon Rainforest, the vital waterway and tributaries parched, stranding communities and affecting livelihoods.

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Amazon India workers say they're overworked and mistreated during a brutal heat wave

6:00am September 30, 2024

Amazon India says it ensures breaks and worker safety, but workers tell NPR they're pressured not to stop for water or to use the toilet, especially while processing same-day orders.

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NLRB says Amazon is a joint employer of some 3rd-party delivery drivers in California

1:14pm August 24, 2024

The two sides have been in disagreement about whether Amazon bears legal responsibility to its delivery drivers, who are technically employed by third-party companies but deliver Amazon packages.

Chris Smalls of Amazon Labor Union leads protest

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Amazon's struggling union joins forces with the Teamsters

11:58am June 18, 2024

by Alina Selyukh

For two years, Amazon has refused to recognize its single unionized warehouse, organized by the upstart Amazon Labor Union. Now the hefty Teamsters is lending its muscle to the union effort.

People cycle along the street in Afuá, a city in northern Brazil's Pará state, in January. Since 2002, this city on the banks of the Amazon River has been famously off limits to motor vehicles.

A car-free town in the Amazon serves lessons for pedaling to net zero emissions

6:00am May 12, 2024

by Mac Margolis

Afuá, a remote town in the Brazilian Amazon, banned motor vehicles over 20 years ago. Writer Mac Margolis and photographer Stefan Kolumban paid the town a visit to see what life is like.

Workers at this Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., held a revote on unionizing in March 2022, but the result remains unresolved.

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Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama might get a third try at unionizing

5:01am April 25, 2024

by Alina Selyukh

Federal officials threw out the first vote, ruling that Amazon improperly interfered. The results of the second vote remain inconclusive. The federal government now determines what happens next.

Amazon said on April 3, 2024, it's cutting hundreds of jobs in its cloud computing unit AWS as part of a strategic shift.

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Amazon is cutting hundreds of jobs in its cloud computing unit AWS

10:33am April 04, 2024

by The Associated Press

The AWS layoffs follow other layoffs that happened at Amazon and its subsidiaries this year, including at Prime Video, the MGM Studios unit and Twitch, the social media platform owned by Amazon.

The first Amazon Fresh grocery store in London opened in 2021. The company is replacing its "Just Walk Out" technology at U.S. stores with smart shopping carts, but leaving it in the U.K.

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No more 'just walk out' at Amazon grocery stores. The new bet is smart shopping carts

5:52pm April 03, 2024

by Alina Selyukh

The retailer banked big on the cashier-less tech. It's now out at Amazon Fresh stores in the U.S. But Amazon's grocery ambitions are only shapeshifting.