Tag: Amazon
CEOs at lowest-paying firms jacked up their pay during pandemic
By MARK GRUENBERG
PAI Staff Writer
Washington (PAI) – CEO’s at more than one-third of the nation’s lowest-paying firms – including Amazon and Starbucks that are...
OPINION: The future of work depends on stopping Amazon’s union busting
Shareholders and policymakers must play a role in protecting Amazon workers’ rights
By JENNIFER SHERER
The Amazon shareholder meeting provided an important opportunity to consider urgent...
Amazon’s Unfair Labor Practices in Alabama draws flak from RWDSU
Amazon challenges Staten Island vote
By MARK GRUENBERG
PAI Staff Writer
The inconclusive union authorization vote at the giant Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., has drawn flak...
Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to form a union
Second vote in Bessemer too close to call
Amazon workers at a warehouse in Staten Island, New York, have voted to unionize under the newly...
OPINION: Unfair Labor practices at Amazon
Unions can fight back against Amazon and other anti-union employers by taking control of dues collection
By SCOTT HERIC
The past few months have seen retail...
Worker deaths, union-busting – Amazon is due for a reckoning
By TIM ROWDEN
Managing Editor
Fed-up and endangered Amazon workers appear poised to deliver a reckoning to the e-commerce retail behemoth known for its grinding, unsafe...
OPINION – ‘Amazon won’t let us leave:’ Tornado creates modern Triangle...
By C.J. ATKINS
“Amazon won’t let us leave.” That was the last message 46-year-old Larry Virden sent his girlfriend on the evening of Dec. 10.
A...
Amazon ordered to hold new union election at Alabama facility
Latest turn in fight to form Amazon’s first-ever U.S. union
A federal Labor relations official has ordered a second union election at an Amazon facility...
Amazon pressured Alabama workers to vote against unionization
NLRB official recommends new vote
A hearing officer for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has determined that Amazon violated federal labor laws by encouraging...
OPINION: America needs to empower workers again
Unions aren’t obsolete, and we need to get them back
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Labor activists hoped that the unionization vote at Amazon’s Bessemer, Ala., warehouse would...