/channels/news_feeds/all/term/Amazon/rss en /channels/channels/news/experts-amazon-workers-new-york-warehouse-vote-unionize-338851 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Amazon warehouse workers in the Staten Island borough of New York City voted to unionize on Friday, marking the first successful U.S. organizing effort in the online retail giant's history and handing an unexpected win to a nascent group that fueled the union drive. (<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/amazon-union-vote-1.6405360" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">CBC News</a>) </p> <p><strong><a href="//www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/barry-eidlin" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Barry Eidlin</a>, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology </strong></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">1 </span><span class="month">April </span><span class="year">2022</span></div></div></div></div></div> Fri, 01 Apr 2022 18:16:53 +0000 webfull 179328 at /channels /channels/channels/news/expert-amazon-faces-teamsters-union-drive-canadian-warehouse-333677 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Amazon.com Inc. could be facing its first unionization battle in Canada after a Teamsters local filed for a union vote for workers at the e-commerce giant’s fulfilment centre near Edmonton. If the Alberta Labour Relations Board verifies application, all workers at the YEG 1 fulfilment centre in Nisku, Alberta, who were employed as of September 13 will be able to vote on joining the union. In order to have a union vote filing approved in Alberta, the union must demonstrate 40 per cent of workers at a given job site have signed a petition for union representation.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/gettyimages-1154816450.jpg?itok=RNQAreu1" width="160" height="107" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">27 </span><span class="month">September </span><span class="year">2021</span></div></div></div></div></div> Mon, 27 Sep 2021 13:44:31 +0000 webfull 173443 at /channels /channels/news/google-facebook-amazon-microsoft-and-ibm-join-forces-set-guidelines-future-artificial-intelligence-r-263202 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The end of September saw the formation of a new team of rivals: the Partnership on AI, whose motto is "to benefit people and society". The partnership includes tech giants Amazon, Google and its subsidiary Deepmind, Facebook, IBM and Microsoft.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">3 </span><span class="month">October </span><span class="year">2016</span></div></div></div></div></div> Mon, 03 Oct 2016 17:38:19 +0000 webfull 121764 at /channels