The Verge

DECEMBER 23, 2021

According to a report by The New York Times , the company previously didn’t allow employees to be around its warehouse, delivery, or other facilities more than 15 minutes before or after their shifts, making it more difficult to organize with co-workers. 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

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

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 If RWDSU is successful, there would likely be another election, Bloomberg reports. It’s a learning moment.

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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

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

Workers also staged a “lunchtime walkout” in an attempt to get Amazon to recognize the union, according to a report from CNBC. However, as reported by Bloomberg , it later withdrew its petition after it was determined that the group needed more signatures.

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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 day after the walkout, a regional manager interrogated Bailey for an hour and a half, telling him his behavior might constitute harassment, Motherboard reports. Votes will be counted on March 30th.

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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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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. We’re issuing more reports. Because in his words, “hope is a superpower.”.

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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

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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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Palm Springs isn't your average meet-cute.) — Alison Foreman, Entertainment Reporter How to watch: Palm Springs is now streaming on Hulu. 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). You're on board from the get-go.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The Times reassigned the show’s star reporter and host, Rukmini Callimachi, and dropped a full episode in its feed discussing what went wrong. Fact-checking takes time, as does fully reporting a story. The paper of record, well-known for its audio work with The Daily , now has a stain on its podcasting endeavors.

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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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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 In a separate yet related note, Amazon also reported a massive loss due to its Rivian holding. miles per hour at the historic Kennedy Space Center.

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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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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The Trump administration is seeking $175 billion from Congress to use for the next four years on immigration enforcement, Axios reported on February 11, 2025. For example, a 2011 Alabama law called HB-56 directed local police officers to investigate the immigration status of drivers stopped for speeding. billion to $10.8

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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

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

JULY 15, 2020

But there’s reason to believe the case against Google will land the soonest of any of them — in May, the New York Times reported that charges could come “ as early as this summer.”. As Leah Nylen noted in that report: “Alabama is now the only state that is not investigating the company.”. The cause has not yet been reported.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 19, 2025

Shes also a 2020 MacArthur Fellow for environmental health advocacy and, in 2011, worked with the United Nations special rapporteur to expose environmental injustices in Lowndes County, Alabama, where she grew up, and across the southern U.S. I think about Alabama. Last week, U.S. Appalachia. I think about Appalachia.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

Facebook is considering a ban on political ads in the days leading up to the US election , Kurt Wagner reports at Bloomberg. At that point Clubhouse had no in-app mechanisms for reporting harassment, and its community guidelines were little more than legal boilerplate. I only have 3 million on Instagram and 500,000 on YouTube.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

You’ll carve away Section 230, the law that says platforms aren’t liable for what users publish, you’ll do algorithmic transparency, you’ll make them audit every content moderation decision they make. And there’s still hookworm epidemics in Alabama and Texas and other places. And do what? Yeah, that’s tough, right?

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