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Placards and a papier-mâché Jeff Bezos head at London "Make Amazon Pay" protest in 2021. Amazon has been criticized on many issues, including anti-competitive business practices, its treatment of workers, offering counterfeit or plagiarized products, objectionable content of its books, and its tax and subsidy deals with governments.
Amazon has lobbied for increased subsidies for Green Hydrogen, by silently backing the trade group Fuel Cell & Hydrogen Energy Association (FCHEA). [20] Critics have raised numerous problems with Green Hydrogen the primary one being that it requires a large amount of energy to produce and would merely move emissions from the tailpipe into the grid.
Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon is a polemical book written by author Patrick Tierney in 2000, in which the author accuses geneticist James Neel and anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon (the author of the 1968 book Yanomamö: The Fierce People) of conducting human research without regard for their subjects' well-being while conducting long-term ...
Amazon and Integrity say the vast majority of emergency calls are prompted by existing health issues. Integrity said in a statement that “less than 5 percent of ambulance visits over the past [two] years for Integrity Associates have been related to work events.” (Integrity's complete response to a detailed list of questions can be read here .)
Companies around the world are all facing an interesting dilemma in 2024, according to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy: their biggest problems and solutions might be one and the same. “The opportunity and ...
[7] [8] Amazon has actively opposed unionization in the United States, [7] having stated a preference to resolve issues with employees directly, [8] asserting that unions would impede the company's innovation. [9] Prior to the 2020 Bessemer union drive, Amazon had not faced a major union vote in the United States since Delaware in 2014. [7]
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 .
Amazon.com, Inc., [1] doing business as Amazon (/ ˈ æ m ə z ɒ n / ⓘ, AM-ə-zon; UK also / ˈ æ m ə z ə n /, AM-ə-zən), is an American multinational technology company engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. [5]