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Amazon Workers Urge Bezos to Match His Words on Race With Actions

New York Times
June 24, 2020

SEATTLE — Last week, Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s chief executive, wrote a rare note to all of the company’s employees. His leadership team had been reflecting on the “systemic racism” facing…

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Gaining Skills Virtually to Close the Inequality Gap

New York Times
June 7, 2020

When the word came in early March, Ashley Russell recalled his first reaction as “sheer astonishment.” Within a week, Year Up, a nonprofit job-training program in cities across the country,…

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Google Rescinds Offers to Thousands of Contract Workers

New York Times
May 29, 2020

OAKLAND, Calif. — Google, facing an advertising slump caused by the pandemic, has rescinded offers to several thousand people who had agreed to work at the company as temporary and…

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‘Way Too Late’: Inside Amazon’s Biggest Outbreak

New York Times
May 19, 2020

Therese Kelly arrived for her shift at an Amazon warehouse on March 27 to find her co-workers standing clustered in the cavernous space. They were awaiting a buildingwide announcement, a…

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Amazon’s Showdown in France Tests Its Ability to Sidestep Labor

New York Times
May 14, 2020

PARIS — Workers at Amazon’s six mammoth French warehouses won some concessions from the company in late March: After hundreds of employees threatened to walk out unless the company better…

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Employers Rush to Adopt Virus Screening. The Tools May Not Help Much.

New York Times
May 11, 2020

Bob Grewal recently began testing a new health-screening setup for workers at a Subway restaurant he owns in Los Angeles near the University of Southern California. When he stepped inside…

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White-Collar Companies Race to Be Last to Return to the Office

New York Times
May 8, 2020

Even as President Trump has said[1] “we have to get our country open again,” much of corporate America is in no rush to return employees to their campuses and skyscrapers.…

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One of Amazon’s Most Powerful Critics Lives in Its Backyard

New York Times
May 3, 2020

WASHINGTON — Representative Pramila Jayapal was walking a fine line when she arrived at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters on a chilly day last October to meet with some of the company’s…

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Bezos Takes Back the Wheel at Amazon

New York Times
April 23, 2020

SEATTLE — At the end of February, Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s chief executive, and his girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez, were in France discussing climate change with President Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée…

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As Amazon Rises, So Does the Opposition

New York Times
April 18, 2020

PORTLAND, Maine — A million years ago, Stacy Mitchell was in her office, talking about why Amazon is bad for America. “If you relentlessly squeeze workers and suppliers, if you…

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Labor and Jobs

Gaining Skills Virtually to Close the Inequality Gap

Google Rescinds Offers to Thousands of Contract Workers

‘Way Too Late’: Inside Amazon’s Biggest Outbreak

Amazon’s Showdown in France Tests Its Ability to Sidestep Labor

Employers Rush to Adopt Virus Screening. The Tools May Not Help Much.

White-Collar Companies Race to Be Last to Return to the Office

One of Amazon’s Most Powerful Critics Lives in Its Backyard

Bezos Takes Back the Wheel at Amazon

As Amazon Rises, So Does the Opposition

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