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Amazon must redo Bessemer union election, orders labor board official

The Verge

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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Amazon Labor Union says it has NLRB go-ahead for second NYC election

The Verge

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. However, the ALU claims it’s received that approval.

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A renowned community of quilters is taking on copycats — and winning

The Verge

Online sales gave Gee’s Bend quilters control over their work Quilts made by generations of women in Gee’s Bend, Alabama, have hung in the Met, the Whitney, and the Smithsonian Museum of Art. Some had zero experience filing taxes. Illustration by Claudia Chinyere Akole. They’ve been shown at galleries and art fairs around the world.

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Amazon says union and NLRB “suppressed and influenced” Staten Island election

The Verge

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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Leveraging Salesforce CRM for the University of Vermont Office of Research

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More specifically, the flagship land grant and top research university sought out this Salesforce CRM expansion to enable greater collaboration and insight into UVM researcher engagements with internal stakeholders and external partners. To learn more about the University of Vermont, visit their website at uvm.edu. Written by Blake Becker.

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What Twitter should copy from Tinder

The Verge

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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Utah just passed the country’s first age-verification bill for app stores. But the fight isn’t over

Fast Company Tech

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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