Inside Amazon’s ‘Labor Awakening’: Journalist Erika Hayasaki on her New York Times Magazine story

A delivery driver loads packages at an Amazon distribution facility. (Amazon Photo) What happens when Amazon becomes an integral part of the economy and culture of a…

Segment on union busting from John Oliver rips Amazon and tactics other companies use

Amazon is within the crosshairs once more throughout a brand new section on union busting from “Final Week Tonight with John Oliver.” The HBO present took on…

In unusually close votes, Amazon shareholders send messages on exec pay, labor, and environment

A poster in Seattle promoting an Amazon shareholder resolution on plastics. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) New numbers reveal an undercurrent of Amazon shareholder opposition to the…

What Amazon’s plan to improve worker safety reveals about the company’s true nature

An Amazon sign above the entrance to a sortation center. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Addressing the issue of warehouse worker safety in response to a…

Microsoft’s union pledge, and the new era of organized labor in tech

Microsoft is taking a road less traveled in tech with its union pledge. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Marcus Courtney was a Microsoft software tester who…