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Getty Images Amazon has defeated activists hoping to establish the company’s first unionised warehouse in the US. Workers at the Bessemer, Alabama warehouse voted 1,798 to 738 against the effort, labour officials said. That represented a majority of votes cast in the contest, which was seen as a key test for Amazon after global criticism […]
The company’s decisive victory deals a crushing blow to organized labor, which had hoped the time was ripe to start making inroads. Amazon workers at a giant warehouse in Alabama voted decisively against forming a union on Friday, squashing the most significant organizing drive in the internet giant’s history and dealing a crushing blow to […]
The Biden administration Thursday asked a federal appeals court to place a hold on proceedings surrounding the Trump administration’s attempted ban of the Chinese social media app WeChat, a day after it asked a different court for a similar delay involving a TikTok case. In both cases, the administration said it needed time to review […]
SEATTLE — The addition of new servers to Amazon’s dominant cloud-computing network triggered a cascading set of errors that took down large swaths of the Web on Wednesday, the company acknowledged. Amazon said in a lengthy and technical blog post Saturday morning that a massive computing network in Northern Virginia began to fail after it […]
SEATTLE — Cyber security researchers questioned the effectiveness of Microsoft’s effort this week to disrupt a botnet it feared could snarl state and local computer systems to sow distrust of the upcoming presidential election. The software giant said Monday that a court order it won from a federal judge in the Eastern District of Virginia […]
“I haven’t talked much about our work on this,” the chief executive wrote to his 116 million Facebook followers a week after George Floyd’s death, “but the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has been one of the largest funders, investing ~$ 40 million annually for several years in organizations working to overcome racial injustice.” He said he […]