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Thousands of delivery drivers filed legal claims against Amazon on Tuesday, alleging the company’s classification of them as independent contractors instead of employees has led to unpaid wages ...
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 tension between Amazon and its delivery drivers boiled over again this week as members of the Teamsters union went on strike at Amazon facilities across New York, Illinois, Georgia and California.
Amazon arrived in the UK in 1998. [74] It is the 2nd largest market in Europe after Germany. [ 50 ] : 215–216 In 2001, 80% of workers at the Milton Keynes Fulfillment Center (STN8) voted against unionizing with Graphical, Paper and Media Union (GPMU, now part of Unite the Union ), [ 50 ] : 215–216 which the union partly blames on union busting.
Amazon employees then leaked an email to The Intercept [271] indicating that the company was aware that its drivers were doing so: "This evening, an associate discovered human feces in an Amazon bag that was returned to station by a driver. This is the 3rd occasion in the last 2 months when bags have been returned to the station with poop inside."
Federal Trade Commission, et al. v. Amazon.com, Inc. is a lawsuit brought against the multinational technology company and online retailer Amazon in 2023. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), joined by the attorneys general of seventeen U.S. states , alleges that Amazon holds and abuses an online retail monopoly .
Delivery drivers in the Chicago suburb Skokie, Illinois, who began organizing in June to join the Teamsters union, gave Amazon a Dec. 15 deadline to negotiate an agreement, seeking higher wages ...
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