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Amazon spends big on anti-union push |
Amazon spent $14.2 million last year on labor consultants as the e-commerce giant aimed to quash union drives, according to a Labor Department filing. |
It's more than triple what Amazon spent the previous year, when organizing efforts started to build up among Amazon warehouses, our colleague Karl Evers-Hillstrom reported. In April 2022, an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island became the first to successfully unionize — but Amazon has quashed organizing efforts at other locations that have sought union efforts. Anti-union consultants, who craft and carry out strategies to persuade workers against voting for a union, are frequently hired by large companies. Amazon faced pushback over its strategies. A federal judge ruled in January that the company violated labor laws by threatening to withhold wage increases if workers voted to form a union. In the filing, Amazon wrote that the consultantswere hired to assist the company in "expressing the company's opinion on union representation, and to educate employees about the issues, election process and their rights under the law." Read more at TheHill.com. |
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Twitter CEO Elon Musk poked fun at the New York Times on Sunday, calling the publication "unreadable" after it lost its blue verification badge on his social media platform. "The real tragedy of @NYTimes is that their propaganda isn't even interesting," Musk wrote in a tweet. "Also, their feed is the Twitter equivalent of diarrhea. It's unreadable," Musk added. "They would have far more real followers if they only … |
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| HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — States are doling out more cash than ever to lure multibillion-dollar microchip, electric vehicle and battery factories, inspiring ever-more competition as they dig deeper into their pockets to attract big employers and capitalize on a wave of huge new projects. Georgia, Kansas, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas have made billion-dollar pledges for a microchip or EV plant, with more state-subsidized … |
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Turnitin, a popular program educators use to detect plagiarism in student papers, announced Monday it has added "AI detection capabilities" amid the boom of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence platforms. Turnitin can detect "the use of AI writing tools including ChatGPT, with 98 percent confidence," it said in a press release. "Educators told us that being able to accurately detect AI written text is their first priority … |
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US entity secretly dealt with controversial spyware firm |
Part of the U.S. government entered into a secret contract with Israeli spyware firm NSO Group to gain access to a geolocation tool days after the Biden administration announced it was taking action against the company, The New York Times reports. |
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NASA announces crew heading to the moon |
The astronauts will fly around the moon next year before heading back to earth. This will be the first human trip since the Apollo mission in 1972, The Hill's Amy Thompson reports. |
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PARIS (AP) — Parisians have overwhelmingly voted to banish the French capital’s ubiquitous for-hire electric scooters from their streets. The 15,000 opinion-dividing mini-machines are now expected to vanish from central Paris at the end of August when the city’s contracts with the three … |
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New satellite images show Russian trenches across Crimea, indicating Moscow is prepping to defend the area ahead of an anticipated spring offensive … Read more |
| A top white-collar criminal defense lawyer has been hired as the lead counsel representing former President Trump following his indictment in a Manhattan … Read more |
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