Last week, 84 workers at Amazon contractor Battle Tested Strategies reached a contract with the Teamsters, which the employer voluntarily recognized.
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‘Extreme’ delays plague mail delivery during busiest week of year, union says
Some customers, according to the union, are now going five or six days without regular mail service – as the holidays send delivery volumes to their peak.
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Hammered by Amazon, Peaks’ only hardware store closing
Duffy’s Island Hardware was a place Peaks residents could count on year-round for tools, supplies or a DIY gadget.
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Amazon to allow U.S. customers to pay with Venmo
Amazon is rolling out a feature that allows shoppers to pay for items using their Venmo accounts
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Amazon workers reject union bid in upstate New York
Experts had noted a win there would have given the union more leverage in its quest to negotiate a contract with Amazon and a chance to demonstrate its prior win at a facility on Staten Island, New York, wasn’t a one-off.
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Amazon plans to hire 150,000 workers for holiday season
The world’s largest online retailer typically hires legions of temporary workers this time of year to help store, pack and ship items from its warehouses.
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Amazon cracks down on products it views as cannabis related
The tech giants have tended to allow products that are not ‘plant facing,’ but Amazon recently changed the artificial intelligence it uses to search for contraband and more businesses are getting booted.
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Woolwich family sues Amazon over fatal highway crash
Misty Fisher and her family filed a negligence lawsuit Monday after a delivery driver hit and killed her husband in Topsham in July 2020.
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Amazon workers in Alabama will vote again on unionization in February
The National Labor Relations Board called for a revote after discovering the e-commerce giant interfered in the election last year.
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Amazon’s cloud-computing unit’s problems take down websites, services
Amazon reported that that programming interfaces at its data centers in the Eastern United States were ‘seeing impact.’