Tag: Amazon

Amazon, which has reported $10.3 billion in recent federal contracts, paid CEO Andy Jassy 6,474 times more than it paid its median worker last year.

Media interest in the campaigns at Starbucks and Amazon suggests the American public may finally be paying attention.

Let’s hope it marks the beginning of a renewal of worker power in America.

The ALU clinched a decisive victory today, winning by a wide margin to create the first unionized workplace in Amazon’s extensive network of fulfillment, delivery, and sortation centers across the U.S.

"If Jeff Bezos can afford a $500 million yacht, a $23 million mansion with 25 bathrooms, and a rocket ship to blast a comedian to outer space, you know what?" said the U.S. senator. "Amazon can afford to give its employees a $3 raise."

The event venue located in Colorado announced it will abandon palm scanning for event entry and will ban all biometric surveillance at its events.

New research reveals lost rainforest resiliency imperils biodiversity, carbon storage, and the climate "at a global scale."

Tracking oil exports in the Amazon identified that the majority of Amazonian oil comes from Ecuador and ends up in the hands of large California-based corporations.

“Amazon has proven time and time again that it views workers as disposable means to achieving greater profits.”

The Amazonian Indigenous organizations leading the plan aim to center Indigenous-led forest management and land tenure to protect endemic species.