Amazon Submits Registration Revenue; Amazon Prime Costs Rising

A booming economy and a persistent virus are beginning to weigh on Amazon’s retail business even as its cloud computing business grows and an investment boosts profits. The company, whose profits, headcount and share price soared two years ago as Covid forced people to stay at home, said on Thursday Operating income in the fourth …

Amazon Submits Registration Revenue; Amazon Prime Costs Rising

As the cloud computing business grows and an investment increases profits, a booming economy and a persistent virus are beginning to weigh on Amazon’s retail business. The company, whose profits, headcount and share price soared two years ago as Covid forced people to stay at home, said on Thursday Operating income in the fourth quarter …

Amazon is paying $2.25 million to settle the price-fixing investigation.

Amazon launched a price-fixing investigation Wednesday by the Washington State attorney general’s office and agreed to pay $2.25 million, ending a program that gave it control over the prices of products provided by third-party sellers in its market. The lawsuit focused on a program the Seattle-based company launched in 2018 to allow sellers to use …

Timeline Set for New Syndication Vote at Amazon Warehouse in Alabama

Amazon workers in Alabama will have one more chance to vote to form a union this winter, as the National Labor Relations Board schedules a mail-in election to begin February 4. The agency said Tuesday that workers will have until March 25 to cast their votes. The institution will count the votes on March 28. …

Comprehensive Ecologist and Amazon Savior Thomas Lovejoy Dies At 80

During his time at the World Wildlife Fund, he wrote part of a report commissioned by President Jimmy Carter – “Global 2000: Entering the 21st Century” Published in 1980 – it predicted that by 2020, 20 percent of all species in the world will become extinct. “Hundreds of thousands of species,” he wrote, “will be …

Amazon Reaches Workers Agreement, Giving Workers More Power to Organize

SEATTLE – Amazon facing off increased scrutiny on workers’ rightsagreed this month to allow warehouse workers to organize more easily in the workplace as part of a nationwide agreement with the National Labor Relations Board. Under the deal, which was finalized Wednesday, Amazon said it would email notices of their entitlements to former and current …

Amazon Reaches Workers Agreement, Giving Workers More Power to Organize

SEATTLE – Amazon facing off increased scrutiny on workers’ rightsagreed this month to allow warehouse workers to organize more easily in the workplace as part of a nationwide agreement with the National Labor Relations Board. Under the deal, which was finalized Wednesday, Amazon said it would email notices of their entitlements to former and current …

OSHA Leads Investigation into Amazon Warehouse Crash in Illinois

Federal and state officials said on Monday they would investigate the incident. Amazon delivery warehouse crash A tornado hit Edwardsville, Illinois, on Friday, killing six people. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker said at a meeting: News Conference A state investigation into whether the building was built according to zoning regulations is ongoing, while federal workplace safety …

Tornado Collides With Company’s Peak Delivery Season On Amazon Site

Unlike the huge, multi-level fulfillment centers where Amazon stores inventory and packs items in separate packages, fewer people work at delivery stations. Amazon employees sort packages in a single field for each delivery route. Next, drivers working for contractors bring pickup trucks to another area, where packages are rolled in cars, loaded into pickup trucks, …

AWS Outage Causes Chaos for Amazon Warehouse Staff

SEATTLE — Amazon warehouses across the country stopped working Tuesday as disruptions to the company’s cloud computing system removed the technology that powers the company’s logistics operations. The outage came during peak holiday season, and Amazon is already more complex and expensive logistics during the labor shortage. Usually, Amazon’s share of online sales practically increases …