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Amazon and the nascent group that successfully organized the company’s first-ever U.S. union drive are headed for a rematch Monday

If Jeff Bezos can afford a $500 million yacht, Sanders said, he can afford to pay living wages

A group of New York City and state pension funds owning over $5.3 billion of Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) stock or ~0.3% of the company's market value urged fellow shareholders to vote against the re-election of two board members, the Wall Street Journal reports.  New York City's pension fund paired up with New York…

Amazon said it will appeal the decision, which found it acted "unlawfully."

‘Staten Island has surprisingly been so low-key for us’

Challenging anti-union rhetoric and pro-union attitudes of younger workers are undermining highly paid consultants

Editorial: A famous victory for the tech giant’s employees in Staten Island can be a catalyst for change

Amazon workers in Staten Island have achieved something the company has been fighting for years to prevent: a union.

The union victory at Amazon’s JFK8 facility in Staten Island was truly remarkable. A majority of the employees there voted last week for union representation despite the company’s hard-nosed union avoidance tactics, marking the first successful U.S. organizing effort in the company’s history.