Carolyn Adolph
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Business
Union: We cannot allow Amazon to set health and safety standards
Amazon warehouse workers in New York are getting help from unions in their fight for better pandemic working conditions.
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Government
Dread intensifies as thousands still wait for unemployment checks
Many people who filed for unemployment months ago still have not received any money. The state’s self-imposed deadline to resolve those cases is up next week.
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Business
Amazon halts police use of its facial recognition technology
The company says it is imposing a one-year moratorium on police use of Amazon's facial recognition technology.
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Business
Pandemic forces yoga studios to contemplate their future
Lockdown has changed the business of yoga. Studio owners are weighing continuing online classes even as they contemplate rent.
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Government
Ex-Amazon exec calls for breakup of Amazon
A former Amazon executive is calling for the regulation and breakup of Amazon. Tim Bray is a former Amazon executive who quit last month over the treatment of warehouse workers.
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Business
Amazon sued by warehouse workers in New York
Amazon is fighting its first lawsuit filed by American warehouse workers. Workers at a warehouse in Staten Island, New York, the company's practices there amount to a public health risk.
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Business
This is how the Boeing layoffs are going down
Boeing's layoffs are cutting deep into the ranks of Machinists and engineers. These documents reveal how much Boeing had staked on building planes.
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Business
ACLU: Companies can't fight racism until they see they're upholding it
Seattle-based corporate giant
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Business
Unemployment in Washington state expected to peak by September
By the end of September, the unemployment rate in Washington state is expected peak at 19.2%. That’s according to the state's Economic and Revenue Forecast Council.
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Government
Washington state economic recovery will take years. Think 2025
Washington state’s economic forecast council released its first look at the potential for an end to our pandemic recession. It says a jobs recovery could happen by 2025.