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An Amazon truck drives in in Philadelphia, Friday, April 30, 2021. Amazon wants to hire 125,000 delivery and warehouse workers and said Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021 that it is paying new hires an average of $18 an hour in a tight job market as more people shop online. The company is also offering pay sign-on bonuses of $3,000 in some parts of the country.
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A blue sticker with the Amazon logo is displayed on a buzzer system in the apartment building of Jason Goldberg, chief commerce strategy officer at marketing company Publicis Communications, Monday, March 29, 2021, in Chicago. Amazon is making a push to install a device on buzzer systems in apartment buildings throughout the country that allows its delivery drivers to whip out a phone, tap a button and unlock a building's front doors whenever they need to leave packages in the lobby instead of the street.
Supply Chain
Amazon Wants a 'Key' to Your Place
The company is tired of ringing doorbells.
July 22, 2021
A worker walks out of an Amazon Fulfillment Center, Wednesday, March 31, 2021, in North Las Vegas. Amazon said it will stop testing its workers for COVID-19 at its warehouses at the end of July, citing the availability of vaccines and free testing.
Supply Chain
Amazon to End COVID-19 Testing at Warehouses
Nearly 20,000 workers had been infected by October 2020.
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This Feb. 9, 2021 photo file photo, a car enters an Amazon facility where labor is trying to organize workers in Bessemer, Ala. Organizers are pushing for some 6,000 Amazon workers to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union on the promise it will lead to better working conditions, better pay and more respect. Amazon is pushing back, arguing that it already offers more than twice the minimum wage in Alabama and workers get such benefits as health care, vision and dental insurance without paying union dues.
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Amazon Vote May Spark More Union Pushes
What happens inside a warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, could have major implications not just for the country's second-largest employer but the labor movement at large.
March 30, 2021
This photo provided by Hasbro shows the new Potato Head world. Mr. Potato Head is no longer a mister. Hasbro, the company that makes the potato-shaped plastic toy, is giving the spud a gender neutral new name: Potato Head. The change will appear on boxes this year.
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Mr. Potato Head Goes Gender Neutral
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OSHA also said that it will resume publicly announcing when it fines workplaces for unsafe conditions.
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In this photo provided by Megan Fry, a desk Fry constructed out of a legless tabletop and bookcases stands in her Indianapolis home on Sept. 14, 2020.
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Desk Shortage Forces People to Get Creative
It was time to upgrade from the upside-down laundry basket on a nightstand.
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The Ring Always Home Cam, still needs approval from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, but Amazon said it expects to sell it next year at $250.
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Amazon's Flying Camera Will Check to See if You Left the Stove On
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Amazon Needs 100,000 Employees to Keep Up
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Sanitizer Gets Scarce
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