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PHOTO: Amazon employees work to fulfill same-day orders during Cyber Monday, one of the company busiest days of the year, Dec. 2, 2024, in Orlando, Fla. (Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/Getty Images)
Thousands of Amazon workers at the company's first-ever unionized warehouse voted to authorize a strike on Friday, claiming the tech giant has refused to recognize the union and negotiate a ...
A former Amazon employee with Asperger's syndrome claimed he was bullied and abused while working at a San Bernardino Amazon warehouse. A jury ordered the company to pay $1.2 million.
In June 2023, Bernie Sanders began a Senate investigation into "dangerous and illegal" working conditions at Amazon's fulfillment centers. [292] In February 2024, California Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined Amazon $14,625 for not giving air freight workers adequate shade and water on very hot summer days in 2023. [293]
On November 28–29, 2021, two workers allegedly died within hours of one another. The first employee suffered a stroke on the site in a trailer shortly after his request; his body was discovered 20 minutes later. The second worker was found in a bathroom of the warehouse and transported to a hospital where they were pronounced dead. [1]
Amazon workers protest in Minnesota, 2018. Throughout the late 2010s, warehouses in Staten Island and Minnesota participated in union drives and bargaining. Workers organized for work conditions in particular, such as need for more frequent breaks. Workers have leaked Amazon manager training videos about discouraging labor organization.
(The Center Square) – Thousands of Amazon workers in the U.S. and abroad are striking from Black Friday to Cyber Monday. Workers have participated in the annual strike for five straight years as ...
The Sandiganbayan releases a February 23 decision dismissing the ill-gotten wealth case against former Philippine Jai Alai and Amusement Corporation director Olympio Bermudez, deceased former energy minister Geronimo Velasco, and deceased Manila Bulletin chair Emilio Yap, alleged associates of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, involving the ...