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...
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:/...
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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.
Teamsters President Sean O'Brien was re-elected for another 5 year term after no opponent garnered enough support to get on the ballot, the union announces. "The Teamsters is now the most aggressive, effective, and respected labor union on Earth," O'Brien says in statement.
Scoop: In unanimous bipartisan ruling, NLRB rejects Amazon's challenge to landmark Whole Foods unionization vote in Philly www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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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: 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...
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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 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...
The US labor board ruled against Whole Foods Market’s objections to a landmark Philadelphia unionization vote, teeing up a likely yearslong legal battle over whether the Amazon.com Inc. grocery chain ...
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...
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Ilhan Omar pressed Crystal Carey on why she wound down a landmark case that could have held Amazon responsible for contract delivery drivers.
