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Labour board says Amazon illegally fired outspoken workers
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.
First Thing: Chauvin s former police chief condemns unjustified force against Floyd Molly Blackall
Good morning.
Minneapolis’ police chief said that there was no justification for the amount of force used by former officer Derek Chauvin in restraining George Floyd, as he testified at Chauvin’s murder trial yesterday. It is extremely rare for a police chief to give evidence against one of his own officers.
Medaria Arradondo said that he “vehemently disagrees” that there was justification for Chauvin to keep his knee on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes. The restraint should have ended when Floyd stopped resisting and was distressed, Arradondo said, adding that Chauvin had breached force regulations and showed a “disregard for life”.
Online grocery shopping quadruples since 2017 Kroger CEO says no one has the ‘data and insights’ that it has
Kroger is coming off a record year. The grocer grew its same-store sales, excluding fuel, by 14.1 percent last year, aided by a 116 percent jump in online sales. Kroger’s growing private label business was up 13.6 percent during a year when it posted an operating profit of $2.8 billion. The supermarket giant also found alternative revenue streams, notably through its retail media program, which delivered $150 million in operating profit. CEO Rodney McMullen believes that the retailer’s data and insights enable it to outperform its rivals. “Many retailers have transactional data, but no one has the customer data and the insights that Kroger has,” he said on the company’s third quarter earnings call in December.
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