Read more about Amazon India launches mentor programme for startups, emerging brands on Business Standard. Amazon India on Sunday announced the launch of its Mentor Connect programme, which is aimed at accelerating the growth of startups
The National Labour Relations Board has found that two outspoken Amazon workers were illegally fired last year. Both employees, Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa, worked at Amazon offices in Seattle and publicly criticised the company, pushing it to do more to reduce its impact on climate change and to better protect warehouse workers from the coronavirus. Cunningham shared with The Associated Press an email from the NLRB, which said it found that Amazon violated the rights of the two workers. The government agency also confirmed on Monday that it found merit in the case. The news was first reported by The New York Times.
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After lying about the fact that some of its workers are under so much pressure that they are forced to relieve themselves in bottles in order to meet their quotas, Amazon has quietly said it’s sorry in its own very weird way and acknowledged that drivers do in fact do this. It then promptly pointed the finger at other companies like UPS and Uber and said drivers at those companies do it, too.
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In a news article posted late on the Friday before Easter, Amazon apologized to Democratic Wisconsin Rep. Mark Pocan, who it fought with in a bonkers Twitter blowup last week over the peeing in bottles issue. Pocan was commenting on another random, aggressive response from Amazon retail chief Dave Clark, who was fighting with Sen. Bernie Sanders for not being progressive enough.
After a week that saw the retail giant face massive criticism for its worker conditions, Amazon very quietly released a statement admitting that, yes, in some few cases, its workers pee in bottles.
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Another purported casualty of the coronavirus pandemic has surfaced, folks: Amazon brick-and-mortar discount stores. Yep, the e-commerce giant considered opening up permanent retail locations to peddle unsold inventory before the world descended into lockdown, Bloomberg reported Thursday.
Advertisement While the fallout from covid-19 s spread has shuttered a record number of stores across America and recent consumer surveys suggest that folks are increasingly opting out of shopping in person, as they have been for years now, discount chains are some of the few brick-and-mortar stores weathering this larger retail meltdown. And if any company has enough billions in capital and resources to throw at such a venture, it’s Amazon. The company took in more than $125 billion in sales during the last quarter of 2020, according to Statista.