Unions
Amazon sued by warehouse workers over COVID-19 screening pay
Amazon.com Inc has been accused of violating Colorado state law by failing to pay warehouse workers for time spent undergoing COVID-19 screenings before clocking in at work.
Amazon settles with employees allegedly fired for criticizing working conditions
Amazon and the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) have apparently reached a settlement with two former employees who alleged they were fired last year for criticizing the wor...
AT&T mandates COVID-19 vaccination for union-represented employees
AT&T Inc has said it would require its union-represented employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 before entering their work location, following a similar mandate for its ma...
Amazon faces Teamsters union drive at nine Canadian sites
The Teamsters Union has launched campaigns to organize employees in at least nine Canadian facilities of U.S. e-commerce company Amazon.com, according to Reuters interviews with un...
Amazon faces Teamsters union drive at nine Canadian sites
The Teamsters Union has launched campaigns to organize employees in at least nine Canadian facilities of US e-commerce company Amazon.com, according to interviews with union offici...
‘Amazon won’t change without a union’: warehouse is Canada files for union vote
Workers at one of Amazon’s Canadian facilities have filed a request with a local labour board to hold a vote to form a union, Teamsters Canada has said, in the latest challen...
Tech workers bemoan China’s crackdown on compulsory overtime
The Chinese communist government’s campaign to improve conditions for workers has spurred companies, particularly some of its tech giants, to cut down on long hours of compul...
Amazon CEO unveils 55,000 tech jobs in first hiring push under his watch
Amazon.com Inc is planning to hire 55,000 people for corporate and technology roles globally in the coming months, its new CEO Andy Jassy told journalists at our partner news agenc...
NLRB official: How Amazon interfered with Alabama union election
E-commerce giant Amazon.com interfered with a union election by installing a mailbox to collect ballots and by distributing paraphernalia encouraging employees to vote against orga...
Amazon sales growth slows in tame start to Jassy’s tenure as CEO
Amazon.com Inc has said sales growth would slow in the next few quarters as customers venture more outside the home, a tepid start to CEO Andy Jassy’s reign after 27 years wi...
Teamsters union steps up efforts to organize Amazon workers
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, a labor union in the United States and Canada, is stepping up efforts to unionize workers at Amazon.com Inc by creating a company-specif...
Amazon raises minimum pay in Germany to 12 euros per hour
Amazon will guarantee an entry-level wage at its German warehouses of 12 euros (approximately $15) an hour, the company has said in the face of a long-running battle with a top lab...
Blue-collar director vote gives US labor another crack at Amazon.com
After a failed union-organizing effort at Amazon.com last month, labor advocates are looking to the company’s annual shareholder meeting, hoping for a chance to get a worker ...
Amazon and union tussle over identifying witnesses as US labor board starts hearing
Amazon.com has lost a tussle over whether it could learn the names of witnesses before they testify at a hearing investigating claims that the company illegally interfered with a v...
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