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For Amazon and Alabama, Warehouse Union Vote Would Shake Up History

If workers from Amazon's warehouse near Birmingham vote to unionize in the next two months, they would turn a new page not only for the company but for the region.
Alina Selyukh

Claire Miller
National

Amazon Warehouse Workers To Decide Whether To Form Company's First U.S. Union

Some 6,000 workers at Amazon's warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., will begin voting on Feb. 8 on a groundbreaking possibility: whether to form the first union in the company's U.S. history.
Alina Selyukh
Technology

Parler sues Amazon after the tech giant boots the app from its servers

‘Laws about social media that oversee what is allowed, or is not allowed, are really old and long predate this form of technology.’
Kim Malcolm

Andy Hurst
Why experts say Amazon’s fund for Seattle-area affordable housing is huge, but not nearly enough

This week Amazon pledged 2 billion dollars for affordable housing. It’ll be spent around cities where Amazon has large headquarters, including the Seattle area, Arlington Virginia, and Nashville Tennessee. But experts say it’s not nearly enough to resolve the Seattle metro region's housing shortage.
Joshua McNichols
National

Amazon Warehouse Workers In Alabama Plan Vote On 1st U.S. Union

A labor board hearing is expected to hash out how and when a vote might take place to potentially form the first U.S. union at one of America's largest employers.
Alina Selyukh
National

Amazon, TikTok, Facebook, Others Ordered To Explain What They Do With User Data

The Federal Trade Commission gave nine social media and tech companies 45 days to hand over details on how they collect user data. It is the latest move by government actors to regulate big tech.
Jaclyn Diaz
Politics

Why our leaders are leaving Seattle, this week

Bill Radke reviews the week's news with KUOW reporter Casey Martin, New York Times technology correspondent Karen Weise and the editor at PubliCola, Erica C. Barnett.
Bill Radke

Sarah Leibovitz
Technology

There's Rich, And Then There's Jeff Bezos Rich: Meet The World's Centibillionaires

The Amazon CEO and four other billionaires are part of the world's most exclusive club in the midst of the pandemic: those whose fortunes exceed $100 billion.
Jim Zarroli
National

Amazon Wants To Sell You Prescription Medications

Amazon launches an online pharmacy, sending shares of CVS, Walgreens and Rite Aid tumbling. Amazon has pushed to compete with Walmart and major pharmacy chains that have long offered home delivery.
Alina Selyukh
Technology

Amazon Faces Antitrust Charges From European Regulators

EU accuses Amazon of exploiting data collected from other sellers for its own benefit. These are the first formal charges against the retail giant in a spate of antitrust probes in Europe and the U.S.
Alina Selyukh

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