Amazon has fired a Staten Island warehouse worker who organized a strike to demand greater protections for employees amid the coronavirus outbreak. Chris Smalls, a management assistant at the facility, known as JFK8, said he was fired Monday afternoon following the strike. Smalls
Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island plan to strike on Monday to call attention to the lack of protections for employees who continue to come to work amid the coronavirus outbreak. Nearly 100 workers at the facility, known as JFK8, plan
SEATTLE — The U.S. coronavirus outbreak has spread to at least 10 Amazon warehouses, infecting workers racing to deliver massive volumes of packages for consumers leery of leaving their homes to shop. In the past few days, workers tested positive
Amazon announced Monday that it has removed more than 3,900 selling accounts in its U.S. store for “violating our fair pricing policies.” As coronavirus fears began to spread in early March, the company said it was investigating. On Monday, the
NEW YORK — To make room for toilet paper, hand sanitizer and other items in high demand during the global viral pandemic, Amazon said it is limiting what brands and independent sellers can send to its warehouses for the next three weeks.
(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) on Monday said it would hire 100,000 warehouse and delivery workers in the United States to deal with a surge in online orders, as many consumers have turned to the web to meet their needs
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is reconsidering its awarding of a major cloud computing contract to Microsoft after rival tech giant Amazonprotested what it called a flawed bidding process. U.S. government lawyers said in a court filing this week that the Defense
An Amazon employee in Seattle has tested positive for the coronavirus, the online giant confirmed to USA TODAY. The employee, who works in Amazon’s Brazil building near downtown Seattle, went home sick on Feb. 25 and “has not entered Amazon
Amazon is cracking down on price gouging and products that make false coronavirus claims on its marketplace. Amazon told CNBC it has blocked or removed more than 1 million products that made suspect or misleading claims about the coronavirus. The company
SEATTLE – Amazon’s radical new approach to buying foods and speeding up the checkout process goes the next mile Tuesday, with a full-size grocery store in Seattle. The Amazon Go Grocery opens with more than four times the space of the