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News Articles: amazon

A kindle e-book reader is pictured at the Book Fair in Frankfurt, Germany, in 2015.

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  • Books

Authors are protesting Amazon's e-book policy that allows users to read and return

Authors say readers are exploiting Amazon's seven-day return policy by using Amazon like a library and returning books after reading them.

June 27, 2022
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By:
  • Deanna Schwartz
Amazon Echo and Echo Plus devices behind illuminated Echo Button devices during an event by the company in Seattle in September 2017.

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  • Technology

Amazon's Alexa could soon speak in a dead relative's voice, making some feel uneasy

Amazon's voice-cloning technology still under development raises concerns among those who study ethics in artificial intelligence.

June 23, 2022
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
Amazon Echo and Echo Plus devices behind illuminated Echo Button devices during an event by the company in Seattle in September 2017.

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  • Technology

Amazon's Alexa could soon speak in a dead relative's voice, making some feel uneasy

Amazon's voice-cloning technology still under development raises concerns among those who study ethics in artificial intelligence.

June 23, 2022
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
Workers at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island voted in March 2022 to join the Amazon Labor Union. Amazon is presenting its objections to the election before a National Labor Relations Board hearing being conducted over Zoom.

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  • Business

Inside the marathon Zoom call where Amazon seeks to overturn historic union victory

With the existence of a grass roots union at stake, the National Labor Relations Board is considering Amazon's objections to the Amazon Labor Union's historic victory.

June 22, 2022
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Workers at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island voted in March 2022 to join the Amazon Labor Union. Amazon is presenting its objections to the election before a National Labor Relations Board hearing being conducted over Zoom.

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  • Business

Inside the marathon Zoom call where Amazon seeks to overturn historic union victory

With the existence of a grass roots union at stake, the National Labor Relations Board is considering Amazon's objections to the Amazon Labor Union's historic victory.

June 22, 2022
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Federal police officers arrive with recovered human remains believed to be of the Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira of Brazil and freelance reporter Dom Phillips of Britain, at the federal police hangar in Brasília, Brazil on Thursday.

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  • World

A British journalist's remains have been found in Brazil's Amazon, police say

Human remains found deep in Brazil's Amazon have been identified as belonging to British journalist Dom Phillips, according to Brazil's federal police.

June 17, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
The National Labor Relations Board is holding a hearing to consider Amazon's objections to the union election at a warehouse on Staten Island. Amazon is seeking a new election.

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  • Business

Amazon seeks to overturn historic Staten Island union victory at labor hearing

The National Labor Relations Board is considering Amazon's objections to a union election that resulted in the first unionized Amazon warehouse in the U.S.

June 13, 2022
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Workers walk toward an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island, New York, on April 25, 2022. It's the second Amazon facility on Staten Island to vote on whether to join the Amazon Labor Union.

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  • Business

Amazon Labor Union fails to repeat victory in Staten Island Amazon warehouse election

An Amazon sorting center on Staten Island in New York has voted against unionizing, a month after a larger Amazon warehouse across the street voted to join the Amazon Labor Union.

May 02, 2022
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Workers walk to cast their votes over whether or not to unionize, at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island on March 25, 2022. Another Amazon warehouse across the street began voting on a union on Monday.

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  • Business

A 2nd Amazon warehouse on Staten Island begins voting on a union

Less than a month after the Amazon Labor Union unionized the first Amazon facility in the U.S., workers at a smaller warehouse across the street begin voting on whether to join the upstart union.

April 25, 2022
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu

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  • Business

Sellers who ship through Amazon will see a new 5% fuel and inflation surcharge

The new fee doesn't apply to sellers who use third party delivery services or ship orders themselves. Inflation in the U.S. stands at a 40-year high.

April 13, 2022
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
Chris Smalls, president of the Amazon Labor Union, takes part in an interview at the Amazon distribution center in the Staten Island borough of New York on Oct. 25, 2021, after earlier delivering "Authorization of Representation" forms to the National Labor Relations Board in New York.

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  • Business

He was fired by Amazon 2 years ago. Now he's the force behind the company's 1st union

Chris Smalls didn't rely on traditional labor groups for funding or organizing power. Instead he raised money through GoFundMe and talked to former coworkers at their bus stop and over S'mores.

April 02, 2022
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu and
  • Alina Selyukh
GPB News NPR

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  • Business

In a stunning victory, Amazon workers on Staten Island vote for a union

Warehouse workers at an Amazon fulfillment center on Staten Island have voted to join the upstart Amazon Labor Union, making it the first Amazon facility in the U.S. to unionize.

April 01, 2022
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
People arrive for work at the Amazon distribution center at the New York City borough of Staten Island on Oct. 25, 2021.

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  • Business

Labor groups close in on Amazon in 2 tight union elections

One labor and employment observer said the New York vote was "shocking," since Amazon workers there had no support from an established union.

April 01, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
The Amazon fulfillment warehouse at the center of a unionization drive in Bessemer, Alabama. A second union election at the warehouse has concluded, with no winner yet declared.

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  • Business

Do-over union election at Amazon's Bessemer warehouse is too close to call

The no votes edged out the yes votes in the do-over election in Bessemer, Alabama, but more than 400 challenged ballots remain. A hearing will determine whether those ballots will be counted.

March 31, 2022
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
The nearly $8.5 billion merger deal between Amazon and MGM is official. MGM is the movie and TV studio behind the James Bond franchise, <em>Legally Blonde</em> and other popular films.

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  • Business

What the Amazon-MGM deal means for the streaming business

MGM is the film and television studio behind iconic films like the James Bond franchise, Rocky and The Silence of the Lambs.

March 17, 2022
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
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