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The Amazon construction site in Windsor was shut down Wednesday after the discovery of an eighth noose. The massive project was shut down out of concern for peoples’ safety, Scot X. Esdaile, president of the Connecticut NAACP, said late Wednesday morning. “It’s a direct threat on your life,” Esdaile said. “This is a serious, white supremacist message being sent to our entire community. It’s ...

ABDli e-ticaret devi Amazon, uygulamalarıyla adil olmayan şekilde fiyatları artırdığı iddia edilerek antitröst yasasını çiğnediği gerekçesiyle Washington DC başsavcısı tarafından dava edildi.

“As employees, we are alarmed that Amazon's pollution is disproportionately concentrated in communities of color,” a petition signed by 640 workers said.

Retailers raise concerns over effort to legalise private occupation of public land they fear will see more forests burned and cleared for agriculture

The South has never been hospitable to organized labor. Labor organizers and advocates see the David-and-Goliath fight as a potential turning point in the region with a long history of undervalued labor and entrenched hostility to collective bargaining rights. A win could have economic and political ripples for the labor movement and its Democratic Party allies who want a stronger foothold in the South amid decades of dwindling union power nationally.

Humans have degraded or destroyed roughly two-thirds of the world's original tropical rainforest cover, new data reveals – raising alarm that a key natural buffer against climate change is quickly vanishing. The forest loss is also a major contributor of climate-warming emissions, with the dense tropical forest vegetation representing the largest living reservoir of carbon. Logging and land conversion, mainly for agriculture, have wiped out 34% of the world's original old-grow...

Amazon said its checkout-free shopping experience is made possible by the same types of technologies used in self-driving cars.

Indigenous people from Brazil and Colombia sued retailer Casino in a French court on Wednesday over the selling of beef linked to land grabbing and deforestation in the Amazon, campaigners involved in the lawsuit said. It is the first time a French supermarket chain has been taken to court over deforestation and the loss of land and livelihood under a 2017 law in France that demands its companies avoid human rights and environmental violations in their supply chains. Casino, which controls Bra...

If you’re looking for an inexpensive tablet, you have plenty of options. But few may be as appealing as the Amazon Fire HD 8 and the Onn Tablet Pro 8 from Walmart's in-house electronics brand. Bo...

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