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The debate over the employer-employee relationship has proved fraught in recent years, with legal battles over whether Amazon is considered the drivers’ employer, responsible for better wages ...
On Wednesday, 523 employees in the Amazon Web Services division sent its chief executive, Matt Garman, an open letter detailing their frustration with the new policy.
Amazon provides cloud web hosting services via Amazon Web Services (AWS) to Palantir, [416] a data-analysis company which has developed software used to gather data on undocumented immigrants and hosted on Amazon's AWS cloud. [417] In June 2018, Amazon employees signed a letter demanding that the company drop Palantir from AWS.
The Amazon Labor Union (ALU) is a labor union specifically for Amazon workers, created on April 20, 2021. [1] On April 1, 2022, the Amazon workers at a warehouse in Staten Island, JFK8, backed by the ALU became the first unionized Amazon workers recognized by the National Labor Relations Board. [2] In June 2024 the union became affiliated with ...
Amazon warehouse workers outside the National Labor Relations Board. Some warehouse workers of Amazon, the largest American e-commerce retailer with 750,000 employees, have organized for workplace improvements in light of the company's scrutinized labor practices and stance against unions. Worker actions have included work stoppages and have ...
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who will step down in the third quarter, published his final letter to shareholders, in which he says that "we need a better vision for our employees' success." See: Do You...
Both Integrity and Amazon say they tell prospective employees that peak work is short-term. “[W]e make every effort to clearly communicate the nature of the employment,” Integrity said. Roth, of Amazon, says, “[W]e clearly advertise that positions for seasonal employees are temporary roles, although there is a possibility to stay on in ...
Unions, worker advocates and many Democratic officials have criticized Amazon for allegedly imposing production quotas on workers that force them to work at a dangerous pace and develop injuries.