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CB Insights Research Email January 14, 2021 Where is this data coming from? Start your free trial today Email Start your free trial today Email UPS — and the traditional shipping & logistics space at large — is being disrupted across many of its core functions and revenue streams.   As the world’s largest package delivery company, UPS has established a strong foothold in shipping and logistics, expanding its business internationally and offering addit...

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Amazon has turned a middle-class warehouse career into a McJob By Matt Day and Spencer Soper, Bloomberg News Published: December 21, 2020, 6:02am Share: Employees at an Amazon warehouse in Hawthorne, Calif. Many Amazon warehouse employees struggle to pay the bills. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/TNS) Amazon.com Inc. job ads are everywhere. Plastered on city buses, displayed on career web sites, slotted between songs on classic rock stations. They promise a quick start, $15 a...

This article originally appeared on ProPublica. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., and Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., have introduced a bill that would shield unemployed workers from having to return federal pandemic unemployment assistance benefits when agencies have mistakenly paid them these funds. The legislation, submitted on Dec. 2, came in the wake of an article by ProPublica in October that exposed the debts and anguish faced by workers who have been overpaid by state unemployment age...

Despite their Amazon-branded delivery vans and uniforms, subcontracted delivery drivers do not formally work for the e-commerce giant. Photo: Todd Van Hoosear, CC BY-SA 2.0. Part 1 of a series on Amazons delivery drivers. Part 2, “Surveillance, Stress, and No Bathrooms: Life as an Amazon Driver,” is here. While millions have lost their jobs and thousands of small businesses have shut their doors, at least one company has thrived during the pandemic: Amazon. The e-commerce behemoth controls ...

How Amazon drove Alabama warehouse workers to unionize Updated Feb 02, 2021; Facebook Share By Matt Day and Spencer Soper Bloomberg News and Tribune Media Services Amazon.com Inc. job ads are everywhere. Plastered on city buses, displayed on career web sites, slotted between songs on classic rock stations. They promise a quick start, $15 an hour and health insurance. In recent weeks, America’s second-largest employer has rolled out videos featuring happy package handle...

THE Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB) union is aiming to organise Amazon’s Flex delivery drivers in the new year after voting to welcome them into its ranks.  The union, hailed for organising the “unorganisable,” already has members in other gig-economy delivery workforces at Deliveroo, Stuart and UberEats. This week IWGB’s couriers and logistics branch voted to integrate Amazon Flex workers, who service the online giant’s Prime delivery service.  Amazon Flex and other ...

Already burdened by a debt crisis, New York cabbies get shortchanged by government again.