Senior reporter for Bloomberg News and Businessweek, covering the present of work
Josh Eidelson
Amazon tells vendors drivers should “help validate the customer’s investment by greeting them with a smile, being enthusiastic & thanking the customer for choosing Amazon” and also should be careful online to “avoid the mistaken impression that they work for Amazon” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Control freaks and sham contracting: Amazing reporting by @josheidelson.bsky.social on how Amazon, deliverer of 9 billion items daily, escapes responsibility for employment while controlling every aspect of their work. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
New: Citing our reporting, lawmakers today grilled Trump’s NLRB general counsel over her deal to settle a landmark case against Amazon, her former client www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link to that Businessweek investigation: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Morgan Lewis - the firm where Trump NLRB GC Crystal Carey was a partner who’d personally represented Amazon- is currently defending Amazon in a Cali lawsuit involving some of the same issues, at the same Amazon vendor, as the big NLRB case Carey’s pushing to settle www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
"Did you direct any regional staff to pursue a settlement with Amazon in Palmdale, California?"
@ilhanmn.bsky.social
asked at US House committee hearing today (bloomberg.com/news/article...).
"Yes, that is my job," NLRB GC Crystal Carey answered.
Amazon requires its contract drivers be “neat and clean", including “prevention of unpleasant breath or body odor, modest perfume/cologne, & clean teeth, face/ears, fingernails & hair.” It says each driver "represents Amazon to our customers," records show www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Amazon told prospective "delivery service partners" - vendors it hires to haul packages - to be careful what they call their company, because “Amazon may require you to change” any name it finds offensive or too close to its own lingo— such as using the word “Smile” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Amazon creates leaderboards for each of its delivery vendors, ranking each of their subcontracted drivers bloomberg.com/news/feature... Amazon’s systems also use bright yellow, orange or red to mark “areas where a driver has spent excessive amounts of time,” records we reviewed show
Amazon requires delivery vendors to adhere not only to its existing policies but also to whatever future ones Amazon imposes, which would then become “a part of your company’s contract with Amazon as if they were written in their entirety in this Agreement” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
New Businessweek feature: A landmark case was unearthing new revelations about Amazon's intimate, intensive regulation of drivers it claims aren't its employees. Then Trump put Amazon's former lawyer in charge www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Based on 1000s of pages of records and 50+ interviews
The feds were pushing a landmark case about Amazon’s control of its contract drivers. Then the president put Amazon’s former lawyer in charge.
www.bloomberg.com
New Businessweek feature: A landmark case was unearthing new revelations about Amazon's intimate, intensive regulation of drivers it claims aren't its employees. Then Trump put Amazon's former lawyer in charge www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Based on 1000s of pages of records and 50+ interviews
New Businessweek feature: A landmark case was unearthing new revelations about Amazon's intimate, intensive regulation of drivers it claims aren't its employees. Then Trump put Amazon's former lawyer in charge www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Based on 1000s of pages of records and 50+ interviews
New Businessweek feature: A landmark case was unearthing new revelations about Amazon's intimate, intensive regulation of drivers it claims aren't its employees. Then Trump put Amazon's former lawyer in charge www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Based on 1000s of pages of records and 50+ interviews
New Businessweek feature: A landmark case was unearthing new revelations about Amazon's intimate, intensive regulation of drivers it claims aren't its employees. Then Trump put Amazon's former lawyer in charge www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Based on 1000s of pages of records and 50+ interviews
New Businessweek feature: A landmark case was unearthing new revelations about Amazon's intimate, intensive regulation of drivers it claims aren't its employees. Then Trump put Amazon's former lawyer in charge www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Based on 1000s of pages of records and 50+ interviews
New Businessweek feature: A landmark case was unearthing new revelations about Amazon's intimate, intensive regulation of drivers it claims aren't its employees. Then Trump put Amazon's former lawyer in charge www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Based on 1000s of pages of records and 50+ interviews
New Businessweek feature: A landmark case was unearthing new revelations about Amazon's intimate, intensive regulation of drivers it claims aren't its employees. Then Trump put Amazon's former lawyer in charge www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Based on 1000s of pages of records and 50+ interviews
The feds were pushing a landmark case about Amazon’s control of its contract drivers. Then the president put Amazon’s former lawyer in charge.
The feds were pushing a landmark case about Amazon’s control of its contract drivers. Then the president put Amazon’s former lawyer in charge.
www.bloomberg.com
New Businessweek feature: A landmark case was unearthing new revelations about Amazon's intimate, intensive regulation of drivers it claims aren't its employees. Then Trump put Amazon's former lawyer in charge www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Based on 1000s of pages of records and 50+ interviews
