US labor board bans mandatory anti-union meetings in ruling against AmazonThe National Labor Relations Board said that so-called "captive audience meetings," which have been legal for decades and are routine durin...
14 Nov, 2024, 08.36 AM IST
Amazon joins companies arguing US labour board is unconstitutionalAmazon in a filing made with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on Thursday said it plans to argue that the agency's unique structur...
17 Feb, 2024, 09.16 AM IST
For Tesla and Musk, auto strike carries benefits and risksUnencumbered by an activist union, Tesla can take advantage of the work stoppages to add to its substantial lead in battery technology and ...
22 Sep, 2023, 12.05 AM IST
Amazon Q2 results: Revenue rises 11% to $134 billion boosted by cloud salesNet income was 65 cents a share versus expectations of 35 cents. Last year, the company lost 20 cents a share in the quarter because of a s...
04 Aug, 2023, 06.43 AM IST
Amazon faces labour complaint over failure to bargain with unionAmazon is still challenging the results before a U.S. labor board and has yet to engage in bargaining with the union.
13 Jul, 2023, 09.42 AM IST
Amazon is everywhere. That’s what makes it so vulnerable.Amazon's strength also hint as an underappreciated vulnerability it has.
20 May, 2023, 10.15 AM IST
Amazon is everywhere. That's what makes it so vulnerableAs recently as four years ago, the blue-gray vehicle with the smiley arrow was a relative novelty among fleets of brown and blue-and-white ...
20 May, 2023, 09.21 AM IST
Amazon broke law in anti-union campaign, judge rulesThe judge, in his decision dated Monday, found that company officials had illegally suggested that unionized employees would have their pay...
01 Feb, 2023, 07.33 AM IST
Amazon faces Black Friday protests, strikes in 40 countriesEmployees in the US, UK, India, Japan, Australia, South Africa and across Europe are demanding better wages and working conditions as the c...
25 Nov, 2022, 08.26 AM IST
Can Amazon Labour Union finally rally the support of workers to join them?The ALU is now heading in to the fourth Amazon union vote count this year after tackling various challenges. It faced some internal dissent...
18 Oct, 2022, 05.11 PM IST
Amazon issued 13,000 disciplinary notices at single US warehouseIn a single year ending April 2020, the company issued more than 13,000 so-called “disciplines” in Gerald Bryson’s warehouse alone, one law...
12 Jul, 2022, 10.33 PM IST
Amazon threatened workers over union vote: Labour officialsThe NLRB's Brooklyn-based regional director has determined that, prior to that election, the company held mandatory "captive audience" meet...
21 May, 2022, 12.08 AM IST
Amazon reports rare quarterly loss as online shopping slowsAmazon reported a loss of $3.84 billion, or $7.56 a share, for the first three months of the year. A year ago, it reported a profit of $8.1...
29 Apr, 2022, 09.58 AM IST
Amazon union could face a tough road ahead after victoryTo achieve anything close to that, the grassroots union would need to negotiate a contract with Amazon that both sides, as well as union me...
24 Apr, 2022, 08.03 PM IST
How 2 best friends beat AmazonIn dismissing and smearing him, the company relied on the hardball tactics that had driven its dominance of the market.
04 Apr, 2022, 04.20 PM IST
New York attorney general sues Amazon over COVID-19 shortfallsThe attorney general's lawsuit seeks to require Amazon to upgrade its protections for workers, reinstate Smalls, and pay damages to him and...
17 Feb, 2021, 10.58 AM IST
- Trustee: Some Madoff stock trades were fiction
Investigators have confirmed suspicions that the monthly statements showing the disgraced financier was making stock trades for them were p...
21 Feb, 2009, 04.11 AM IST