The Verge

APRIL 29, 2021

Its @AmazonNews Twitter account made the bizarre decision to troll US Congress members about tax laws. Following a failed union vote in Bessemer, Alabama, a fired worker is attempting to unionize other Amazon warehouse facilities. But as Amazon’s sales have grown, it has also grown more concerned with government intervention.

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The Verge

JANUARY 28, 2022

The NLRB has had several other disputes with Amazon around labor law. The NLRB found that the company violated labor laws during a union election in Bessemer , Alabama as well, and ordered a redo. The NLRB has had several disputes with Amazon. In the original election, workers voted against unionizing by over two to one.

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The Verge

JULY 13, 2020

At the time, California and Alabama were the only two states to not participate in the probe. This latest news could leave Alabama as the only state that’s not investigating the company. Last September, attorneys general from 50 states and territories announced an antitrust investigation into Google’s advertising and search businesses.

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The Verge

APRIL 7, 2022

The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (or RWDSU) has filed objections against Amazon to the National Labor Relations Board, saying that the company has again interfered with its election in Bessemer, Alabama ( via CNBC ). Amazon did not immediately reply to The Verge ’s request for comment.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, voted against unionizing in April , but the NLRB recently said the election has to be re-done , citing objections claiming Amazon had inappropriately interfered with the election. Amazon didn’t immediately respond to The Verge’s request for comment on the settlement.

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The Verge

JANUARY 11, 2022

The NLRB said Amazon broke labor laws in the original election. The second union election at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama will begin on February 4th, according to a notice posted Tuesday by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which you can read below. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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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

AUGUST 24, 2021

In a new section of the complaint, the DFEH says Activision Blizzard is encouraging employees to talk to attorneys at the WilmerHale law firm instead of state investigators — and then denying the state access to that evidence because the conversations were confidential.

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The Verge

MARCH 26, 2021

You make the tax laws @SenWarren; we just follow them. If you don’t like the laws you’ve created, by all means, change them. 1/3 You make the tax laws @SenWarren ; we just follow them. If you don’t like the laws you’ve created, by all means, change them. Mark Pocan (D-WI) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to Sen.

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The Verge

APRIL 4, 2022

A union vote in a Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse was too close to call and will be determined by a court hearing — it was the second election after the National Labor Relations Board said Amazon broke labor laws during the first. Meanwhile, the union vote at another Staten Island warehouse is currently underway.

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The Verge

MAY 7, 2021

A new phase of the historic union vote by Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama begins today. Things are not over,” says Veena Dubal, a law professor at the University of California, Hastings. “We Many of the tactics Amazon used are legal under current labor law. It’s a learning moment.

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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

MARCH 28, 2022

Amazon workers claim they weren’t all properly alerted as what they thought was smoke filled the third floor at a Bessemer, Alabama warehouse on Friday, according to a report from the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) (via Input ). Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 22, 2021

US law dictates that union organizers need the support of at least 30 percent of workers — the four warehouses employ around 5,500 workers in total, according to Bloomberg. It initially filed for a union election on October 25th and collected over 2,000 employee signatures in support.

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The Verge

APRIL 8, 2022

In its filing, the company says: “The actions of both the Region and the ALU are substantially more egregious than the installation of a mailbox by the United States Postal Service that the Board concluded destroyed and interfered with laboratory conditions in Amazon’s landslide election victory” during the union drive in Bessemer, Alabama.

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The Verge

MARCH 22, 2021

The NLRB investigation found that warehouse managers may have violated US labor law on four accounts, Motherboard reports. The news comes amid a historic union vote at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. The case, which centers on a warehouse in Queens, New York, was settled before it went to trial.

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The Verge

MAY 21, 2021

For months during the union drive, Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, felt like they were being watched. RWDSU is trying to convince the labor board to throw out the results of the vote by proving Amazon violated US labor law. Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images. Amazon attorney: The mailbox was a choice.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Serial Productions settled a lawsuit in May this year over the alleged use of the deceased subject’s name for commercial purposes, violating the Alabama Right of Publicity law. Participant Media acquired the show’s feature rights and is currently developing it to become a full-length film.).

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The Verge

APRIL 28, 2021

The National Labor Relations Board ultimately ruled that Musk’s comments should be considered union-busting and broke the law. The labor rights movement took an especially public hit earlier this month when a push to unionize an Amazon warehouse in Alabama overwhelmingly failed.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2021

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. Twitter hadn’t anticipated the authenticity of rank-and-file workers would ever be up for scrutiny. In April, I wrote about the case of Amazon’s Twitter army.

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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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The Verge

DECEMBER 28, 2020

This brought down wireless and wired networks across parts of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Alabama — disrupting cell service, some 911 networks, and communications at the Nashville International Airport, which briefly grounded flights as a result. The result was days of partial service outages, mitigated partly by emergency cell sites.

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VisionLink

JANUARY 21, 2013

Fifty years ago in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and the rest of the old South, Blacks could not drink from "whites only" water fountains, could not sit at "whites only" lunch counters or swim at "whites only" public swimming pools. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim''s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.''

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JANUARY 19, 2015

Fifty years ago in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and the rest of the old South, Blacks could not drink from "whites only" water fountains, could not sit at "whites only" lunch counters or swim at "whites only" public swimming pools. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim''s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.''

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The Verge

APRIL 4, 2022

Another key difference between the successful drive in Staten Island and the thus far unsuccessful union drive in Bessemer, Alabama: ALU was independent, and the Bessemer organizing efforts were done in coordination with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), an 85-year-old labor union that already represents thousands of workers.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 24, 2021

Stevenson is a lawyer who graduated from Harvard Law School and started EJI to dedicate his life to fighting the unequal treatment of marginalized communities. Mr. Hinton spent almost 30 years on death row in Alabama. He is committed to changing the narrative on race in this country to help us truly understand who we are.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Both of them joining us actually in a room together, which is awesome from beautiful Alabama. And joining him also from Alabama is Brian O’Neil. I’m with Bright Street Solutions, a full-service consulting and placement firm in Birmingham, Alabama. As Steven mentioned, living in Alabama. You doing okay? .

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

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 Arrington previously worked at the law firm of Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP. That is being auctioned now and as of press time the highest bid was about $8,500.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Sweet Home Alabama Reese Witherspoon is simply sublime as Melanie, a high-powered fashion designer about to marry the mayor of NYC's son (Patrick Dempsey). And, you know, he's gotten pretty handsome in the years since she left… Sweet Home Alabama is peak 2000s rom-com. How to watch: Sweet Home Alabama is now streaming on Hulu.

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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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The Verge

JANUARY 10, 2021

Clearview AI’s CEO says that use of his company’s facial recognition technology among law enforcement spiked 26 percent the day after a mob of pro-Trump rioters attacked the US Capitol. Clearview AI said in May it would stop selling its technology to private companies and instead provide it for use by law enforcement only.

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The Verge

MAY 4, 2021

But Shopify doesn’t really fit into the same category of laws as Twitter or Facebook or other social media platforms — so it has a different set of moderation challenges, and it’s worth thinking about whether the enterprise software that powers online stores should have to meet the same moderation standards as TikTok or YouTube.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 20, 2025

Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating the incident, along with local law enforcement, but Robertss family members said they are still waiting for answers. The workplace death is not unusual in Louisiana, which has been ranked the sixth-most-dangerous state for workers in the U.S., a former OSHA compliance officer.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Wilcox has since filed a lawsuit contesting her firing, arguing that it violated some of the very labor laws she previously enforced.) In January, the NLRB reported that the board was hearing 62 separate cases in which administrative law judges had determined Starbucks had broken labor laws.

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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.”. Compiled by students and volunteers, the atlas is a database of surveillance technologies used by law enforcement authorities across the United States — including drones, body cameras, facial recognition, and more.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

For now, Priesters will have to stick to its famous pecans in Fort Payne, Alabama. Priesters Pecans, an Alabama staple, is one of more than half a dozen sites across the state slated to receive millions of dollars in federal funding to expand access to chargers for electric vehicles. But maybe not for long. But in a Feb.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

Alabama is now the only state that is not investigating the company. Law enforcement authorities are using a company called Dataminr to help monitor social media related to protests. Stylistically, they’re laws. All of the individuals spoke on condition of anonymity to talk openly about a confidential probe. The Hill ).

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