industry economics
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Geniuses, Unite! Atlanta Apple Store Workers File for Unionization
New York City may be the Big Apple, but the Peach State may soon become home to the first Apple union. Workers at an Atlanta Apple Store filed for a union election Wednesday, the first in the country to do so.
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Amazon Workers Win Historic Union Vote, And It Wasn’t Even Close
Amazon workers at a Staten Island warehouse facility voted in favour of forming a union Friday, notching a momentous victory a growing U.S. labour movement.
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The FTC Is Probing How Amazon Allegedly Tricks People Into Signing Up for Prime
Someone at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has had it with free trials that turn out not to be so free months later. The federal agency thought that the online signup for Amazon Prime was so shady it conducted an official inquiry into it.
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Report: Apple Store Workers Are Preparing to Unionize
Apple retail employees at a number of stores across the country are quietly planning to unionize, according to a Washington Post report — spurred on by pay that hasn’t kept up with inflation even as the tech giant posts record-setting profits.