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Amazon Loses Bid to Overturn Union Victory at Staten Island Warehouse
A federal labor official on Wednesday rejected Amazon’s attempt to overturn a union victory at a warehouse on Staten Island, removing a key obstacle to contract negotiations between the union and the company. The official, a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board, found that there was a lack of evidence to support Amazon’s […]
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Can It Get Any Worse for Rudy Giuliani?
“When did Rudy Giuliani go off the rails?” is a question that many Americans and New Yorkers in particular have been asking for years now, arriving at no obvious consensus. Old-time observers of the local political scene like to revisit the time, two decades ago, when he famously berated an advocate of ferret ownership during […]
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Man Accused of Hitting Giuliani Faces Lesser Charges After Video Emerges
The complaint charging Mr. Gill says he hit Mr. Giuliani so hard that the blow resulted in “substantial pain to the back and left side of his body” and caused Mr. Giuliani to stumble forward. But footage of the episode, which was obtained and published by The New York Post, appears to show Mr. Gill […]
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Rudy Giuliani Smacked on Back While Campaigning on Staten Island
A grocery store worker on Staten Island was arrested on Sunday after smacking Rudolph W. Giuliani on the back while the former mayor campaigned on behalf of his son, a Republican candidate for governor, according to the police and Mr. Giuliani. In a brief interview, Mr. Giuliani said he was walking through a ShopRite grocery […]
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NLRB Finds Merit in Union Accusations Against Amazon and Starbucks
In a sign that federal labor officials are closely scrutinizing management behavior during union campaigns, the National Labor Relations Board said Friday that it had found merit in accusations that Amazon and Starbucks had violated labor law. At Amazon, the labor board found merit to charges that the company had required workers to attend anti-union […]
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Amazon Fires Senior Managers Tied to Unionized Staten Island Warehouse
After Amazon employees at a massive warehouse on Staten Island scored an upset union victory last month, it turned the union’s leaders into celebrities, sent shock waves through the broader labor movement and prompted politicians around the country to rally behind Amazon workers. Now it also appears to have created fallout within Amazon’s management ranks. […]
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NLRB Finds Merit in Union Accusations Against Amazon
In a sign that federal labor officials are closely scrutinizing management behavior during union campaigns, the National Labor Relations Board informed a lawyer representing workers at Amazon this week that it had found merit in accusations that the company had violated labor law. The labor board found merit to charges that the company had required […]
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Amazon Union Success May Point to a New Labor Playbook
The critics typically acknowledge that the campaigns helped galvanize support for higher wages even if they fell short of unionizing workers. Defenders say the goal is to have an impact on a company- or industrywide scale rather than a few individual stores. They point to certain developments, like a pending California bill that would regulate […]
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Biden Appears to Show Support for Amazon Workers Who Voted to Unionize
WASHINGTON — Days after warehouse workers on Staten Island defied Amazon and successfully formed a labor union, President Biden on Wednesday threw his support behind the workers and championed their cause. In remarks to a national conference of unionized trade workers, Mr. Biden spoke directly to one of the world’s most powerful companies and defended […]
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