Lauren Rosenblatt

The Warehouse Worker Protection Act would ban production quotas that require workers to move at an unsafe pace, skip bathroom or restroom breaks or cut corners in their work in order to keep up with expectations.

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New federal bill aims to slow pace of work at Amazon, other warehouses

May 6, 2024 at 8:40 a.m.

The Warehouse Worker Protection Act would ban production quotas that require workers to move at an unsafe pace, skip bathroom or restroom breaks or cut corners in their work in...

The families of 15 people have sued Amazon in six separate cases since 2022 鈥� including one filed last month 鈥� alleging the company is responsible for the deaths of their loved ones.

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Amazon sold a chemical that led to 15 deaths. Who is responsible?

April 22, 2024 at 10:48 a.m.

The families of 15 people have sued Amazon in six separate cases since 2022 鈥� including one filed last month 鈥� alleging the company is responsible for the deaths of...

Amazon warehouse work is getting safer but still more dangerous than 2020, data show

April 13, 2023 at 6:55 p.m.

The overall injury rate at Amazon warehouses declined in the past year, according to two new analyses of injury data. The Strategic Organizing Center, a coalition of labor unions that...

Amazon’s self-driving unit Zoox puts driverless taxi on the road

February 16, 2023 at 8:13 p.m.

Zoox, Amazon's self-driving unit, has hit the road with its driverless robotaxi for the first time. Founded in 2014, Zoox has been working to develop a fully autonomous vehicle that...

After layoffs, former Amazon workers wonder about ‘Earth’s Best Employer’

February 11, 2023 at 3:50 p.m.

When their phone pinged with a meeting reminder in January, one former Amazon employee was confused. The company had let them go four days earlier — yet they were still...

Amazon is building on sacred land in South Africa, activists say

December 2, 2022 at 10:14 p.m.

A group of activists is bringing a dispute from South Africa's Cape Town to Amazon's Puget Sound headquarters, hoping to stand in solidarity with some Indigenous people and appeal directly...

How to tell whether that verified Twitter account is legit

November 15, 2022 at 8:04 p.m.

As Twitter keeps changing, misinformation experts are watching closely, hoping to offer tips on how to spot the difference between official accounts and the impostors. After months of rocky uncertainty,...

Amazon has promised to help workers get abortions. Some workers say it hasn’t gone far enough.

July 2, 2022 at 5:35 p.m.

Amazon employees are calling on the company to get more involved in protecting abortion access, including by ending political donations to groups that oppose abortion, organizing its own protests against...

Accionista: Uso indebido ‘astronómico’ de los datos de los clientes por parte de Amazon arruinaría la empresa

May 16, 2022 at 3:38 p.m.

Con un nuevo enfoque para llamar la atención respecto a cómo Amazon usa los datos de las personas, un accionista está demandando a Jeff Bezos, Andy Jassy y otros 17...

Los robots aprenden a pensar como humanos. ¿Pueden satisfacer las demandas de velocidad de Amazon?

April 14, 2022 at 3:47 p.m.

En un laboratorio de la Universidad de Washington (UW), los robots juegan al hockey aéreo. O resuelven cubos de Rubik, dominan el ajedrez o pintan la próxima Mona Lisa con...

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