The Verge

APRIL 1, 2022

The company is evaluating its options, the post says, “including filing objections based on the inappropriate and undue influence by the NLRB” that it claims it witnessed. The post didn’t specify what “influence” it was referring to. The ALU has been trying to unionize Amazon workers in New York for nearly two years.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ordered a new election at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama site, a tentative victory for organizers who had sought to unionize workers at the company’s fulfillment locations. The decision does not name a date for the second election, which will be set in a future filing. Photo by PATRICK T.

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The Verge

MARCH 27, 2021

First filed in San Francisco County Superior Court in February, the case was removed to US District Court California, Northern District on Friday. And Monday is the deadline for workers at Amazon’s plant in Bessemer, Alabama to vote whether to form the first-ever Amazon union in the US.

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The Verge

MARCH 31, 2022

Workers at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama held their second union vote | Patrick T. The votes for the union drive at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, have been counted, but the final result is so close that it will depend on a court hearing yet to come. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Earlier this month, warehouse workers in Staten Island walked out to protest the company’s labor practices and filed a petition to run a unionization election. Amazon faces a growing workers’ rights movement.

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The Verge

MARCH 2, 2022

Amazon employees at the Staten Island LDJ5 warehouse have reportedly gotten the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) permission to continue with unionization efforts, according to the Amazon Labor Union , after the workers filed a petition to unionize in February. There are two other Amazon facilities involved in union elections.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

At the same time, the company has also been able to successfully fend off union victories at a second warehouse on Staten Island, as well as at facilities near Albany, New York, and in Bessemer, Alabama.

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The Verge

AUGUST 24, 2021

California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) originally filed the suit in July , which accused the company of creating a frat-like culture where female employees faced “constant sexual harassment” and discrimination. The updated complaint can be read below, and you can read the original version here.

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The Verge

APRIL 8, 2022

Amazon has officially filed its objections to the Amazon Labor Union’s win in Staten Island , New York, and is asking the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to order a new election. In the document filed Wednesday, Amazon objected to “frivolous unfair labor practice charges against Amazon.” Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2021

“We’ve been working on this for quite some time—well before Bessemer broke out,” he said, referring to the recent union drive at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama. RWDSU challenged the results of the election in a complaint filed with the NLRB. “In

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The Verge

DECEMBER 22, 2021

It initially filed for a union election on October 25th and collected over 2,000 employee signatures in support. Blado told The Verge that the ALU had finished filing the petition. Workers also staged a “lunchtime walkout” in an attempt to get Amazon to recognize the union, according to a report from CNBC.

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The Verge

JANUARY 26, 2022

It’s been working to unionize Amazon workers in New York for a while: in October 2021, it filed with the NLRB to hold a union election for Amazon facilities on Staten Island. There’s currently another union drive at its BHM1 facility in Bessemer, Alabama, where an election is scheduled to begin on February 4th.

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The Verge

APRIL 28, 2021

The effort comes on the heels of a bitter defeat for Amazon organizers in Alabama. After Smalls was fired, he filed a class action lawsuit against Amazon (the case is ongoing).

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2022

The all-hands came after weeks of news stories about ongoing union elections at its fulfillment centers in Bessemer, Alabama (where the results are currently being disputed ), and Staten Island, New York (where employees voted to unionize one facility and another election is scheduled for next week.).

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The Verge

JANUARY 28, 2022

The NLRB found that the company violated labor laws during a union election in Bessemer , Alabama as well, and ordered a redo. Last week, the NLRB confirmed it was preparing to file a complaint alleging that Amazon illegally fired Smith for trying to unionize. One of ALU’s organizers is Daequan Smith.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

The company said in a filing that it plans to raise $1.3 million, according to a regulatory filing. Electric vehicles, batteries & charging Mercedes-Benz said its new 2023 EQE SUV, which will be assembled at its factory in Alabama, will have a starting price of $77,900 and will arrive in U.S. Envisics , a U.K.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2021

Twitter hadn’t anticipated the authenticity of rank-and-file workers would ever be up for scrutiny. At the height of Amazon’s labor battle in Bessemer, Alabama, there was no way to distinguish between workers who actually represented Amazon, and those who were posting satirically.

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

Before this centralized system, folks would build their own system, whether through email, Microsoft Teams, or writing notes on paper and putting it in a filing cabinet,” further explained Chu. You May Also Enjoy: Success Story: The University of Alabama at Birmingham: Transforming Student Journeys Through Salesforce.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 7, 2016

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The Verge

JANUARY 22, 2021

Amazon is trying to delay a union vote in Bessemer, Alabama, appealing a US labor board decision to allow 6,000 warehouse workers to vote by mail on unionization. The company is arguing for the election to be held in person, according to documents filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Thursday.

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The Verge

MARCH 28, 2021

For the last seven weeks, workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama , have been voting by mail on whether to unionize. The vote is taking place at an Amazon warehouse called BHM1 in Bessemer, Alabama, outside Birmingham. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Here is what’s happened so far and what might happen next.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

After filing for bankruptcy protection and being nearly obliterated in the process, discount retail chain Big Lots is getting closer to determining the timeline for its path forward, the brand’s new owner has confirmed with Fast Company. The company said it will share the full list when it becomes available.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 5, 2025

The controversial App Store Accountability Act , which will now head to the desk of Utah Governor Spencer Cox, has pitted app store giants Google and Apple against social media companies like Meta and is part of a wave of similar proposals that have been introduced in a number of states, including Texas and Alabama.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

The latest example was revealed in a series of regulatory filings that showed he had sold 9.6 The Indy Autonomous Challenge racecar, which was programmed by team PoliMOVE from Politecnico di Milano and the University of Alabama, set a new land speed world record of 192.2 Shareholders still have the option to file an appeal.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The grocery chain with a progressive reputation filed six objections with the National Labor Relations Board after workers voted 48 to 36 to join Trader Joes United, an independent union. Wilcox has since filed a lawsuit contesting her firing, arguing that it violated some of the very labor laws she previously enforced.)

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2021

Last month, it picked a losing fight with Congress over the unionization efforts at its Bessemer, Alabama fulfillment center. Over the past year, workers have filed at least 37 complaints to the National Labor Relations Board alleging interference with workers’ right to organize, more than triple the total in the previous year.

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The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Three delegates from California were on a beautiful bluff, the delegate from Alabama was on the famous Edmund Pettus Bridge, tribal members from states with large Native American populations announced their states’ votes, and on, and on. It was glorious!

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

In neighboring Alabama, state regulators sought the same delegated authority that their counterparts in Georgia had been granted, but last year the EPA denied their application because they planned to issue permits to Alabama Power that violated the federal rules in the same manner as Georgias.

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The Verge

MAY 4, 2021

There’s rumors now that some of our biggest merchants are going public, are filing for IPOs. There was just a failed union drive in Alabama , there’s going to be more. And we think what that does is a real leveling of the playing field so that these companies can get bigger, faster, at a pace that, frankly, we’ve never seen before.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

As Leah Nylen noted in that report: “Alabama is now the only state that is not investigating the company.”. The agencies reached an agreement with Harvard and MIT, who filed a lawsuit on July 8th over the policy. Tech companies had spoken out against the negative effects of the draconian policy. Monica Chin / The Verge ).

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

Alabama is now the only state that is not investigating the company. In an amicus brief filed Monday, the U.S. Leah Nylen reports: The California antitrust probe is a separate investigation from the multi-state effort, two of the individuals said. It was not immediately clear what aspect of Google’s business California is targeting.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The EEOC is seeking to dismiss three cases in Illinois as well as one in Alabama, New York and California. The Alabama case charged that Harmony Hospitality LLC discriminated against an employee who identifies as a gay nonbinary male by firing him hours after co-owners learned of his gender identity. The agency cites Trumps Jan.

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