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Amazon‘s profit nearly doubled in the fourth quarter as the e-commerce giant was able to offset the rising costs of running its vast e-commerce business with its investment in Rivian, an electric car company. The company also said it would raise the price of its popular Prime membership. Net sales in the October-December quarter, which includes the all-important holiday season, …

Amazon workers at a Staten Island warehouse have filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to formally request a vote on unionizing, marking the second Amazon facility in the borough to request an election. If approved, workers at the facility would vote on whether to be represented by the Amazon Labor Union, which announced the filing on Wednesday. …

Amazon interrogated and surveilled warehouse workers in Staten Island, where some workers are seeking to form a union, prosecutors for the National Labor Relations Board said in a complaint Wednesday. The allegations come one day after the agency said the warehouse workers have collected enough signatures to move forward with a union election.  According to Bloomberg, the NLRB complaint alleges …

Record online shopping this holiday season has fueled another record for e-commerce companies: returned goods. Prompted by a clogged supply chain, millions of shoppers got an early start on searching Amazon, Walmart and other online retailers for deals even before Black Friday, when holiday discounts traditionally start. Cooped up at home because of the pandemic, people didn’t stop clicking. Online …

The family of a delivery driver is suing Amazon for wrongful death. The man, Austin McEwen, died in an Illinois warehouse struck by a tornado in December. The lawsuit claims the e-commerce giant was negligent, in part because the company told people to keep working despite warnings of extreme weather. The lawsuit also makes claims of negligence against contractors involved …

A new election at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, will start on Feb. 4, the National Labor Relations Board announced Tuesday. Just as with last year’s election, the voting will take place by mail over the course of several weeks. Votes will be counted on March 28. The first election, which rejected the union, was thrown out by an …

You’ll likely hear a lot in 2022 about Amazon being a great place to work and a business that guarantees low prices for customers and delivers with lightning speed. A look back at 2021 explains why the e-commerce giant is so anxious to get those messages out. Amazon began and ended the year fighting a unionization movement at its Bessemer, …

Amazon said it’s resolved network issues that led to an outage that took down multiple major websites and apps for some people on Tuesday. Amazon workers also reported in social media posts that the company’s warehouses were at a standstill on Tuesday while the company struggled to resolve an Amazon Web Services outage, leaving workers without much to do but hang …

Amazon‘s COVID-19 health and safety measures at a Staten Island warehouse drew criticism on Tuesday from New York’s attorney general, who asked a New York court to require improved contract tracing, cleaning, and disinfection and social distancing protocols. James also asked the court to require Amazon to reinstate a former warehouse worker who complained about COVID protocols early in the …