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Amazon manipulated injury data to make warehouses appear safer, a Senate probe finds

2:28pm December 16, 2024

A Senate committee investigation, led by Sen. Bernie Sanders, accused Amazon of risking worker safety for speed while manipulating injury data to make its warehouses seem safer than they are.

Chris Smalls of Amazon Labor Union leads protest

National

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.

Amazon Labor Union President Chris Smalls speaks at a New York rally on Sept. 5. The company had fired Smalls from its Staten Island warehouse after he helped lead a pandemic-era walkout.

Amazon loses bid to overturn historic union win on Staten Island warehouse

10:55pm January 11, 2023

Amazon should recognize its first unionized warehouse in the U.S., a federal labor official ruled.

Organizer Heather Goodall, who works at Amazon's warehouse near Albany, N.Y., leads supporters of the Amazon Labor Union in a march on Oct. 10.

National

Amazon workers vote against unionizing at upstate NY warehouse

4:26pm October 18, 2022

This marks the second loss for the upstart Amazon Labor Union, which previously formed Amazon's first unionized U.S. warehouse in Staten Island. Amazon is still fighting that historic first union win.

A truck arrives at the Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, N.Y., which became the company's first unionized U.S. facility in the spring.

Amazon warehouse workers in Albany will vote on unionization in October

2:02pm September 14, 2022

by Alina Selyukh

About 400 workers will vote on whether to join the upstart Amazon Labor Union, which in the spring won a historic vote to form the company's first unionized U.S. warehouse in Staten Island.

Workers line up to vote on unionization at Amazon's warehouse in Staten Island on March 25.

National

Amazon loses key step in its attempt to reverse its workers' historic union vote

7:40pm September 01, 2022

by Alina Selyukh

A federal labor official is recommending a dismissal of Amazon's objections after a lengthy hearing on the company's appeal against the historic union win at a warehouse in New York's Staten Island.

The National Labor Relations Board is holding a hearing to consider Amazon's objections to the union election at a warehouse on Staten Island. Amazon is seeking a new election.

Economy

Amazon seeks to overturn historic Staten Island union victory at labor hearing

11:27am June 13, 2022

by Andrea Hsu

The National Labor Relations Board is considering Amazon's objections to a union election that resulted in the first unionized Amazon warehouse in the U.S.