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Amazon Union Election Is On

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On December 19, 2020
Amazon’s new facility will be the single-largest private investment in the history of Bessemer, according to the town’s mayor. The Alabama Amazon center demanding a union has advanced to the NLRB preparing to schedule an election. Amazon workers at an Alabama warehouse are getting closer...
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Protests on Prime Day

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On July 15, 2019
It is Prime Day. So people are buying lots of stuff, I guess. But it's worth noting that Amazon is a really horrible employer. They vulture into vulnerable communities to put their warehouse and treat those workers, who largely have few other options, like garbage....
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Another Word on Amazon

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On February 14, 2019
SEATTLE, WA - JUNE 18: Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos presents the company's first smartphone, the Fire Phone, on June 18, 2014 in Seattle, Washington. The much-anticipated device is available for pre-order today and is available exclusively with AT&T service....
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Amazon and Unions

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On May 17, 2016
If Uber is proving fertile ground for labor organizing, for Amazon, it's been a lot harder, thanks in no small part to an already revved-up anti-union campaign that includes managers openly lying to workers and intimidating them in one-on-one meetings.

Job Sprawl

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On December 9, 2015

We spend a good bit of time talking about suburbia and the deleterious effects of housing sprawl here, but job sprawl is another issue worth noting. The building of large.

On Amazon

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On August 15, 2015

Above: Jeff Bezos, Sociopath Everyone is talking about the big Amazon story in the Times today. This should be an open thread for that. I don't have a whole lot.

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