An Amazon delivery van was looted in Santa Monica, California, on Sunday during what is now nearly a week-long series of riots that have sparked in cities across the country after the death of George Floyd last Monday.
E-commerce giant Amazon published a statement on Sunday stating that the company is “standing in solidarity with the Black community” in the “fight against systemic racism and injustice.”
According to a recent report, local news stations across the United States have run news segments scripted and produced by e-commerce giant Amazon. Unsurprisingly, the segments were overly positive about Jeff Bezos’ company and its employment practices.
The net worth of the United States’ billionaire class has increased by $434 billion during lockdown orders implemented by most states to slow the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.
Amazon hit back at former Vice President Joe Biden on Friday after the presumptive Democratic nominee criticized the company for paying a low effective tax rate, reminding him that Congress writes the tax laws, and he was part of it.
A contract delivery driver for e-commerce giant Amazon is claiming that he was fired by the company’s delivery company for voicing his concerns about the coronavirus safety measures taken by the firm.
Amazon already ranks as the country’s No. 1 apparel retailer and owns the Whole Foods grocery chain. Now the e-commerce empire is reportedly looking to grow even bigger with a possible acquisition of JC Penney — the venerable department store chain that recently declared bankruptcy in the wake of the Chinese virus pandemic.
Amazon-owned live-streaming site Twitch has reportedly appointed a transgender “deer-girl” with links to the ADL to its “Safety Advisory Council.” The streamer, known as “FerociouslySteph” on the site, argues that voice chat in video games is a tool of oppression and that “a lot of you gamers are actually white supremacists.”
A startling new investigation has revealed that Amazon provides charitable funding to the controversial and hyper liberal Southern Poverty Law Center through the AmazonSmile customer giving program.
E-commerce giant Amazon reportedly refuses to make company CEO Jeff Bezos available for testimony in Congress, instead stating that it would “make the appropriate executive available” in response to requests from the House Judiciary Committee.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is reportedly on track to become the world’s first trillionaire, with a recent study showing that his net worth has grown an average of 34 percent over the last five years. The research predicts Bezos will become a trillionaire in 2026.
Justin Danhof writes: Amazon allows a collection of bigoted leftists, the SPLC, to oversee who is allowed to benefit from its charitable giving program.
E-commerce giant Amazon will reportedly stop paying its warehouse workers an extra $2 per hour at the end of this month. One Amazon employee called the move “disgraceful,” claiming, “It just shows how very little regard Amazon has for its overworked employees.”
Jair Renan Bolsonaro, the fourth-oldest son of Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, was suspended from the Amazon-owned video streaming platform Twitch.tv last week after casting doubt on the severity of the Chinese virus pandemic.
In days past, if you were risking your life for low pay, that likely meant you were a soldier. The upside: survival skills, high status, a free college degree, and good benefits. These days, though, you can risk your life for low pay and get none of those benefits, as a member of the pandemic “Gig Economy.”
Tim Bray, a vice president at Jeff Bezos’ e-commerce giant Amazon, has resigned in protest of the company’s treatment of workers who have criticized the company over inadequate protections against the Chinese virus.
In a recent op-ed for the New York Times, Recode founder Kara Swisher outlines how the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe will use the Chinese virus pandemic to further consolidate their power, a development we should all “fear.”
Amazon founder, Washington Post owner and world’s richest man Jeff Bezos has been called before Congress to address charges that Amazon has potentially criminally misled the public over its use of data from third-party sellers on the platform.
Amazon hid information of a coronavirus outbreak from employees at one of its distribution centers in New York City, said Chris Smalls, who was fired by Amazon after he blew the whistle on the outbreak at his warehouse and helped organize a walkout to protest the unsafe working conditions there.
E-commerce giant Amazon has reported a surge in sales during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, but increased costs due to the pandemic will cost the company at least $4 billion in the second quarter, according to CEO Jeff Bezos.
E-commerce giant Amazon reportedly purchased thermal cameras to monitor workers’ temperatures during the Chinese virus pandemic from a Chinese firm blacklisted by the United States over allegations that it helped China detain and monitor Uighurs and other Muslim minorities.
According to a recent report, e-commerce giant Amazon may have violated worker safety laws and New York State’s whistle-blower protections when it fired an employee who protested the company’s coronavirus response. The New York Times reports that New York Attorney General Leticia James.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday, urging him to open a criminal antitrust investigation against Amazon for stifling competition.
In a recent report, the New York Times outlines how Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has become increasingly involved in the company’s response to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic despite previously distancing himself from day-to-day operations.
“The Postal Service is a joke because they’re handing out packages for Amazon and other internet companies, and every time they put out a package, they lose money on it,” Trump said.
If you’re a business selling your products through Amazon, the e-commerce giant may use data on your products and sales to develop its own, competing products, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal.
Amazon announced this week that it has been approved by the Department of Agriculture to accept food stamp benefits in seven states. The announcement comes at the same time as Amazon’s stock is soaring — last week the stock jumped more than five percent in one day, increasing CEO Jeff Bezos’ net worth by $6.4 billion in a single day.
The Amazon-owned grocery store Whole Foods is allegedly tracking employees and scoring stores that it deems at risk of unionizing according to a recent report. The company is allegedly using a variety of metrics to grade stores resulting in a “heatmap” showing locations most at risk of unionization.
Over 300 Amazon employees are reportedly planning on calling out of work starting on Tuesday to protest the e-commerce giant’s treatment of workers during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, according to the Hill.
Amazon reportedly told members of its affiliates program on Tuesday that it will be cutting commission rates beginning on April 21. The “Amazon Associates” affiliate marketing program pays a percentage of sales to publishers that direct consumers to Amazon via links on their website and social media.
Amazon fired at least two programmers last week after they aired public criticisms of workplace conditions at the company’s warehouses. Warehouse employees have accused Amazon of failing to take simple precautions to mitigate the spread of the Chinese virus around their facilities.
Amazon announced on Monday it will be putting people who are new to ordering online groceries on a waiting list because of a surge in demand.
Author and journalist Mike Cernovich appeared on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with Alex Marlow this morning to discuss Amazon’s censorship of his documentary about media misinformation, Hoaxed.
Several Amazon employees working in warehouses around the country spoke with Wired this week about the dangers of their workplace during the Chinese virus pandemic. Some of the employees allege that Amazon has failed to take simple precautions that could mitigate the spread of the virus.
Hoaxed, the documentary about mainstream media manipulation by author and journalist Mike Cernovich, has risen to the top of the documentary category in the Apple iTunes store, after being censored by Amazon last week.
Google announced on Sunday that it will be donating $1 million to help San Francisco Bay Area families affected by the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, the company’s CEO Sundar Pichai will also donate another $1 million. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced he would devote $1 billion of his personal fortune to fight the Chinese virus around the world.
E-commerce giant Amazon has reportedly begun construction a lab to test its workers for the Wuhan coronavirus in the latest effort by Jeff Bezos to ease his workers’ fears about the Chinese virus pandemic.
Amazon appears to have banned Hoaxed, a documentary about media manipulation from author, filmmaker, and journalist Mike Cernovich.
Headlines tell us that something new is stirring in America’s workplaces, as we realize that the dreaded coronavirus, the power of giant corporations, and the fate of the labor force are all inextricably entwined.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has reportedly donated $100 million to a non-profit group that works to replenish the stores of food banks across America.