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The complaint from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) claims that Amazon is a so-called "joint employer" of drivers employed by the contractor, Battle Tested Strategies (BTS), and used a ...
The Teamsters union, which is seeking to organize Amazon’s drivers, also filed a complaint at the National Labor Relations Board last year challenging how the company classifies some of its drivers.
Amazon drivers went on strike in four states across the country with less than a week to go before Christmas – but the company is saying it’s not going to affect your holiday deliveries.
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 75 complaints have been lodged against Amazon according to the NLRB. [ 12 ] In 2000, the Communications Workers of America and the United Food and Commercial Workers launched unionization drives for Amazon workers after unrest over a number of layoffs and a significant drop in employee ...
Amazon has sold a number of items, primarily self-published books, with misinformation and pseudoscience about autism spectrum disorder and Asperger's syndrome. [174] [175] According to Wired journalist Matt Reynolds, "[T]o test the system, we uploaded a fake Kindle book titled How To Cure Autism: A guide to using chlorine dioxide to cure ...
In June 2022, Amazon allegedly stopped using its own delivery trucks to shuttle packages in the ZIP codes 20019 and 20020 based on concerns over driver safety, the suit states.
On September 19, 2017, Devan Michael Shoemaker, aged 28, tried to help a truck driver loosen the “kingpin” beneath the truck's trailer. Shoemakers was run over and fatally crushed. [20] On June 1, 2014, Jody Rhoads, aged 52, was killed while operating machinery. [21]
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