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NCAA March Madness 2025 livestream: How to watch the men’s and women’s First Four games

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All the policies and procedures were followed, and Keith [Gill, the commissioner of the Sun Belt Conference] can address exactly how North Carolina was discussed because I was not in the room for any of that, he explained , as cited by CNN. Francis will take on Alabama State on Tuesday at 6:40 p.m. For the first mens game, St.

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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. By the summer, other issues had arisen.

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Public vote counting starts for Amazon union drive in Alabama

The Verge

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has begun publicly tallying votes for a proposed Amazon workers’ union in Alabama, which would be the first of its kind nationwide. Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images. Attention will also turn to labor activism elsewhere in Amazon.

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Amazon will stop testing most employees for weed

The Verge

Amazon is relaxing its policy around employees using weed, according to a new blog post , and will no longer enforce marijuana drug tests for any employee who isn’t also regulated by the Department of Transportation, like a delivery driver. Luckily, in the fallout of the union drive in Alabama, that’s possibly still on its way, too.

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Twitch, owned by Amazon, pulls Amazon’s anti-union ads

The Verge

A Twitch spokesperson said the ads “should never have been allowed to run on [the] service,” as they violate its political advertising policies. The ads were the latest entry in a long campaign aimed at disrupting organization efforts at an Amazon warehouse outside of Birmingham, Alabama.

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President Biden denounces ‘anti-union propaganda’ ahead of Amazon union vote

The Verge

On Sunday night, President Joe Biden released a message of support for unionizing Amazon workers in Alabama, while sternly denouncing anti-union efforts by employers. I made it clear during my campaign that my policy would be to support unions organizing and the right to collectively bargain,” Biden said in the statement.

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Amazon wants to make sure drivers who don’t work for the company are well-groomed and nice online

The Verge

The company has explicit policies concerning personal grooming and social media etiquette that apply to the drivers from other delivery companies. Amazon is infamous for tightly controlling its workers and contractors, but a report from Bloomberg shows that it also tries to control the employees of companies that it contracts.

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