Caroline O'Donovan is a senior technology reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in San Francisco.
Around 3,200 Amazon workers cast ballots in the pivotal election, which marked the closest that one of the companyâs US warehouses has come to unionizing.
In the lead-up to the biggest union vote in Amazonâs history, the company has already shown it can break the rules and get away with it.
The company faced criticism from families who said its low-cost internet plan was too slow for online learning.
A viral tweet by a former Comcast employee supports high school studentsâ claims that the companyâs low-cost internet plan isnât always fast enough for remote learning.
"We wanted to stand with our patriot brothers and sisters that are standing in DC."
The president has earned a timeout, but hasnât been banned â yet.
One of the half-dozen Amazon employees fired following worker protests during the height of the coronavirus pandemic will get a hearing before the National Labor Relations Board.
At the start of the year, it looked like the labor movement was gaining ground in its fight for gig workersâ rights. The tech industry spent big to defeat them.
Pro-Trump demonstrators chanted to âstop the countâ in Michigan, while in Arizona, armed supporters of the president yelled, âCount the votes!â
During an ongoing trial, Postal Service officials said the ballots weren't being tracked so that they could be delivered more quickly.
Around 3,200 Amazon workers cast ballots in the pivotal election, which marked the closest that one of the companyâs US warehouses has come to unionizing.
RE: Email tracking, once the purview of salespeople, is going mainstream.
In the lead-up to the biggest union vote in Amazonâs history, the company has already shown it can break the rules and get away with it.
People are still mad about cleaning fees that can double the cost of renting a room.
Deaths and devastating injuries. A litany of labor violations. Drivers forced to urinate in their vans. Here is how Amazonâs gigantic, decentralized, next-day delivery network brought chaos, exploitation, and danger to communities across America.
Amazonâs policies around who qualifies for quarantine pay have resulted in confusion and financial hardship for affected workers. The company maintains anyone quarantined will eventually be paid.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent an email to factory employees Thursday night calling an employee's claims regarding working conditions "obviously...untrue" and the United Auto Workers effort to unionize Tesla's Fremont factory disingenuous.
Blue Apron wants to revolutionize the food system by selling would-be home cooks all the ingredients they need to make a wholesome meal without setting foot in the grocery store. But a BuzzFeed News investigation has found that in the rush to scale its supply chain at the speed of startup, the company has had health and safety violations, violent incidents, and unhappy workers at one of its packing facilities.
One of the half-dozen Amazon employees fired following worker protests during the height of the coronavirus pandemic will get a hearing before the National Labor Relations Board.
Amazon employees whoâve been demanding paid time off since late last year just won their fight as the company scrambles to staff up in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.