Regulators allege Amazon uses this data to its benefit while simultaneously competing with the same third party sellers. The attempted unionisation of Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama failed in April – but the tactics of Amazon around the process gives an insight into its labour strategy. AustraliaLast year Amazon launched Amazon Flex – its Uber-like delivery service. That immediately ran into trouble with Australia’s Transport Workers Union, which accused Amazon of underpaying drivers, spying on workers and blocking unions’ access to warehouses. It appears Amazon won the negotiation, getting the extra subsidy without a long commitment, the government securing only some rather opaque promises of Amazon building a “wider relationship between New Zealand and the Amazon Group”.

Source: Stuff July 08, 2021 11:03 UTC