Business Amazon pucks convention, names Seattle hockey hall 'Climate Pledge Arena' Amazon has purchased the rights to Seattle’s new hockey and basketball arena, but it’s not naming the building after itself. The Amazon-sponsored venue will be called Climate Pledge Arena. John Ryan
Technology Jeff Bezos May Testify Before Congress For The First Time This Summer Amazon has long resisted calls for such testimony, but a new letter to the House Judiciary Committee suggests Bezos is open to joining other tech CEOs at an antitrust hearing. Alina Selyukh
Health EPA Orders Amazon And EBay To Stop Selling Bogus Coronavirus-Fighting Products On Thursday the EPA ordered the e-commerce giants to stop selling a list of unregistered and misbranded products, some of which contained toxic chemicals like methylene chloride and chlorine dioxide. Hannah Hagemann
Business Union: We cannot allow Amazon to set health and safety standards Amazon warehouse workers in New York are getting help from unions in their fight for better pandemic working conditions. Carolyn Adolph
Government Ex-Amazon exec calls for breakup of Amazon A former Amazon executive is calling for the regulation and breakup of Amazon. Tim Bray is a former Amazon executive who quit last month over the treatment of warehouse workers. Carolyn Adolph
Business Amazon sued by warehouse workers in New York Amazon is fighting its first lawsuit filed by American warehouse workers. Workers at a warehouse in Staten Island, New York, the company's practices there amount to a public health risk. Carolyn Adolph
Technology Amazon Is Offering To Keep 125,000 Workers It Hired For The Pandemic Amazon has hired 175,000 temporary workers to deal with spike in online shopping during the pandemic. Now it's offering most of them permanent jobs. Avie Schneider
What lead to Amazon's biggest coronavirus outbreak Many workplaces are only as good as their managers. But the stakes skyrocket when your employer is Amazon, and the question is enforcement of social distancing rules in a crowded warehouse during a pandemic. Bill Radke Sarah Leibovitz
Business His New Amazon Warehouse Job Got Him Something He Really Wanted From His Previous Job The hourly pay at Amazon is much lower than what Theodore Johnson earned as a massage therapist, but the new job comes with a key benefit he didn't have before. Danielle Kurtzleben
Business Even Washington state isn't getting essential supplies it ordered from Amazon The pandemic is complicating Amazon’s business even as governments turn to the company for essential medical supplies. Washington state is finding that Amazon hasn’t come through on some important orders. Carolyn Adolph
