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Alabama warehouse workers prepare to face down Amazon in union vote

The Verge

An Amazon warehouse in Alabama could become the first to unionize in the US For the next seven weeks, employees at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama will vote on whether to become the first of the company’s US employees to unionize. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Meanwhile, COVID cases in the South were spiking. (A

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Amazon employees in North Carolina vote against joining union

Fast Company Tech

Workers at an Amazon warehouse in North Carolina rejected a proposal to unionize, becoming the latest group of the companys employees to side against union representation. Workers affiliated with Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment, or CAUSE, have been organizing at the North Carolina warehouse since January 2022.

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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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The Station: Elon’s Tesla share sale, Ford teases a second EV truck and GM’s Cruise spending ramps

TechCrunch

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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Coal companies want to dump toxic waste in the ground. Trump’s EPA is granting their wish

Fast Company Tech

Amid a barrage of press releases that, on March 12, proposed 31 deregulatory actions, were two that seem designed to significantly weaken enforcement of coal ash regulations, environmental attorneys told Grist. Zeldin is now the administrator of the EPA, and it appears the power companies are getting their wish.

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TikTok’s biggest problem is outside its control

The Verge

ByteDance is reportedly considering all manner of proposed solutions to keep TikTok alive around the world — it’s expected to generate $500 million in revenue this year , after all. Alabama is now the only state that is not investigating the company. In an amicus brief filed Monday, the U.S. David McCabe / New York Times ).

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