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Amazon was fined nearly $6 million over claims it violated a worker productivity law in California
Amazon faces a $5.9 million fine from California for not disclosing work quotas to warehouse employ…
Madeline Stone
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Amazon held 25 mandatory anti-union meetings each day in the weeks leading up to the Staten Island union vote
Unions and a federal labor-relations board have challenged employers' use of mandatory meetings to …
Katherine Long
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Amazon engaged anti-union consultants at a weekly rate of up to $20,000 each to work in its Staten Island warehouses, documents suggest
Amazon faces a swell in union organizing activity after workers at its JFK8 warehouse in Staten Isl…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Amazon union vote is too close to call in Alabama, but pro-union votes lead in New York
Workers at the BHM1 warehouse voted 993 against unionizing, while 875 voted in favor of it, and ove…
Dominick Reuter,Katherine Long
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I've lived in NYC for 4 years, and the Staten Island Ferry is my favorite free activity when I have visitors
To show my guests a good time on a budget, I often take them to the Staten Island Ferry — a free bo…
Joey Hadden
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Amazon called the cops on a union organizer who was bringing food to warehouse workers. The NYPD arrested him and 2 Amazon workers.
"I think it started off as a scare tactic that completely went off the rails," Amazon worker and or…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Amazon workers due to vote in a union election were told in a mandatory meeting that negotiations could start at 'minimum wage'
"We can't promise what's going to happen," a union avoidance consultant told Amazon workers in leak…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Amazon workers in Staten Island will vote on whether to form a union next month
The Staten Island warehouse union election will overlap with an election at another Amazon warehous…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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The NLRB accused Amazon of illegally threatening, surveilling, and interrogating workers over union organizing at a New York warehouse
The complaint alleged that Amazon brought in a consultant who told workers that union organizers we…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Amazon workers in Staten Island have gathered enough employee signatures to hold a union vote, the NLRB says
"We're skeptical that there are a sufficient number of legitimate signatures," an Amazon spokespers…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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The NLRB says it will hit Amazon with an illegal dismissal case if it doesn't settle with a pro-union warehouse worker
The NLRB found merit in a claim that Smith was fired in retaliation for his union activity, an NLRB…
Insider Inc.
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A 31-year-old becomes first known woman to complete a 37-mile swim around New York City's Staten Island
Leslie Hamilton made sure her tetanus vaccine was current before she became the first woman to offi…
Katie Balevic
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Amazon labor group refiles union election petition at NYC warehouse, demands return of COVID-19 hazard pay
The group demanded the return of hazard pay: "In light of the increasing severity of the COVID-19 p…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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New York's AG is trying to force Amazon to re-hire a worker it fired after he led a protest over COVID-19 safety conditions
New York Attorney General Letitia James also said Amazon's COVID-19 safety protections were inadequ…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Pete Davidson says he's 'in the hole' financially after he and Colin Jost bought a $280,000 Staten Island ferry
Pete Davidson shared his plans for the ferry during his appearance on the "Family Trips with the Me…
Ayomikun Adekaiyero
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Rudy Giuliani claimed a grocery-store employee's attack on him felt like a gunshot. CCTV footage shows he was slapped on the back.
Rudy Giuliani said he felt like someone had shot him and suggested he could have "hit the ground" a…
Cheryl Teh
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Rudy Giuliani was slapped by a supermarket worker while campaigning for his son in New York
A witness told The New York Post she was standing "shoulder-to-shoulder" with Giuliani when an on-d…
Isabella Zavarise
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Report: Amazon illegally confiscated union pamphlets from a warehouse worker and creeped on a pro-union barbecue, NLRB says
Amazon worker Connor Spence told Vice that a security guard took away union pamphlets he was handin…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Firefighters had to rescue 5 adventurous boys who got lost in Staten Island's sewer system after crawling into a tunnel
Audio released from the 911 call captures the boys screaming for help as several firefighters attem…
Erin Snodgrass
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A judge ruled that Amazon must reinstate a Staten Island worker who was fired
After exchanging words with a coworker at a 2020 protest, Gerald Bryson was fired from his job at A…