Amazon is getting ready for the holiday shopping rush with plans to hire 150,000 workers across its operations network, the company announced Thursday. Full-time, part-time and seasonal roles across the… Read More
Heather MacDougall, Amazon’s vice president of Global Workplace Health and Safety, is departing the company after 3 1/2 years to pursue other opportunities, according to an internal memo to employees… Read More
Amazon’s efforts to grow its operations in the New York area have been thwarted again as the tech giant has pulled out of plans for a cargo hub at Newark… Read More
For the second time, the union attempting to organize workers at an Amazon warehouse facility in Bessemer, Ala., has filed an objection related to the conduct of the tech giant… Read More
For the first time in Amazon’s history, a group of the company’s U.S. warehouse workers voted to form a union, delivering a landmark victory for the labor movement and a… Read More
Amazon faced off against unionization efforts at company warehouse facilities in New York and Alabama on Thursday, with vote counts showing the tech giant facing a potentially historic organized labor… Read More
Amazon is converting warehouse space in Slovakia, previously used to fulfill customer orders, into a massive humanitarian aid hub to get much-needed supplies to refugees fleeing the war in neighboring… Read More
Another Amazon warehouse in New York could be gearing up for a unionization vote. A week after the National Labor Relations Board said enough interest had been shown by workers… Read More
The National Labor Relations Board is calling for a new union election at an Amazon fulfillment warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., eight months after employees there voted against joining the Retail,… Read More
Amazon said Monday that it is adding 150,000 seasonal jobs to bolster the ranks of its operations network during the busy holiday season. The annual boost in holiday help comes… Read More
In a bid to incentivize more frontline workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19, Amazon is offering a lottery of cash and prizes valued at almost $2 million, Bloomberg reported on… Read More
A day after pushing back the return to an in-person setting for its office workers to the new year, Amazon has issued new masking guidance for its warehouse workers as… Read More
Amazon stepped outside allowable guidelines and improperly pressured Alabama warehouse workers against unionizing the Bessemer fulfillment warehouse in April, and because of that, the election should be redone, a National… Read More
The news: Amazon is launching a new employee wellness program called WorkingWell, designed to provide activities, exercises and support to reduce the risk of injury for hundreds of thousands of… Read More
Amazon announced Wednesday that it plans to invest more than $1 billion in wage increases for its operations workers, promising raises of between 50 cents and $3 an hour to… Read More
Amazon is getting some help in its efforts to beat back a unionization movement at one of its fulfillment centers in Bessemer, Ala. But internet sleuths are pointing out that… Read More
Customers are still No. 1 at Amazon, but the tech giant now wants it to be known, officially, that employees are also “critical” to its customer-centric mission. That’s one of… Read More
Amazon plans to hire an additional 100,000 full- and part-time workers across its operations network in the U.S. and Canada to help keep up with the surging demand for its… Read More
Amazon said it is taking proactive measures to protect employees at its fulfillment centers after a worker at a facility in Queens, N.Y., tested positive for COVID-19. The first known… Read More
Even the robots are feeling romantic this week at Amazon, as the tech giant shows a little love for Valentine’s Day and employees who have made a human connection at… Read More
Working conditions in Amazon’s fulfillment centers got a blistering critique at the hands of the HBO series “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” on Sunday. And in a what has… Read More
Editor’s Note: Post and headline updated with comment from Amazon Amazon today denied a report that it is preparing to stop making bulk orders from thousands of mostly small vendors,… Read More
Wholesale suppliers that sell items directly to Amazon have reportedly stopped getting purchase orders from the tech giant, and are instead being encouraged to sell directly to consumers via the… Read More
Workers at several Amazon warehouses across Europe protested for better conditions on Black Friday, though the tech giant says it’s “business as usual” at its network of European distribution centers.… Read More
Hurricane Florence, the monster Category 3 storm taking aim at the North and South Carolina coastline, is expected to make landfall by the end of this week and bring with… Read More
Update: Amazon and Sanders continued their spat Thursday with the following tweets: Over 90% of associates in FCs are full-time. Like most companies, we hire temporary associates to help us manage… Read More
Amazon said it will open a fulfillment center in Spokane, Wash., the state’s second largest city. The 600,000-square-foot facility, which Amazon says will employ more than 1,500 people is the… Read More