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Caroline O'Donovan

@ceodonovan
26 posts
2025-03-22
Amazon has declared another regulatory body unconstitutional, in alignment with Trump admin agenda and in hopes of avoiding having to work with government on recall of unsafe products www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2...
2025-03-22 View on X
Washington Post

A look at Amazon's suit against the Consumer Product Safety Commission, claiming the agency is unconstitutional, an argument favored by the Trump administration

The company's lawsuit argues it shouldn't have to cooperate with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which oversees recalls of dangerous goods.

2025-01-19
A whistleblower accuses Amazon of illegally structuring “what was effectively an acquisition” of an AI startup to avoid antitrust scrutiny!  —  www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2...
2025-01-19 View on X
Washington Post

A whistleblower complaint claims Amazon paid $380M for licensing robot maker Covariant's tech and hiring its staff, and the deal merits antitrust scrutiny

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2... John Kostyack / @kostyack : Whistleblower files complaints about Amazon's alleged concealment of antitrust issues with acquisition of AI com...

2022-08-25
Amazon Care signed a deal with Hilton to provide health care to its more than 100k employees less than a year ago. Now Amazon is shutting the whole thing down, saying it didn't create enough value for enterprise customers. https://twitter.com/...
2022-08-25 View on X
GeekWire

Internal memo: Amazon will stop offering Amazon Care at the end of 2022, after determining that it wasn't “the right long-term solution” for enterprise clients

Amazon will stop offering its Amazon Care primary health-care services at the end of this year, according to an internal memo …

2022-04-25
Friday scooplet from me! Independent labor group Amazonians United is alleging that Amazon wrongfully fired four workers at a Long Island City delivery station where a walkout to demand a pay increase was held last month https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
2022-04-25 View on X
Washington Post

Apple, Amazon, and Google have turned to old union-busting tactics, like surveilling workers suspected of organizing, posting propaganda, and hiring consultants

Tech companies are facing increasing momentum from workers trying to organize  —  At a Staten Island warehouse set to start …

2021-09-11
wow! “Google may owe more than $100 million in back salaries over nine years of noncompliance in 16 countries with pay parity laws, according to the complaint.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-09-11 View on X
New York Times

Internal docs: Google realized last year it illegally underpaid temp staff in many countries for years, but was slow to fix the issue fearing negative publicity

it's about the life that it allows workers to build for themselves outside of the workplace. But for years Google executives chose to deny their workers a better quality of life du...

2021-08-20
New from me: changes to workplace policies at Stitch Fix led hundreds of workers to quit, while those who remain worry that they're only there to train the company's algorithm to replace them: https://t.co/saGY1qAeh3
2021-08-20 View on X
BuzzFeed News

Around 1,500 Stitch Fix employees quit after new CEO announces they will no longer have flexible work hours and part-timers must work at least 20 hours per week

Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed News :

and if you're wondering if a small number of these people have already been chattering about uNiOnS.... you already know the answer https://t.co/q6NYDNvRqp
2021-08-20 View on X
BuzzFeed News

Around 1,500 Stitch Fix employees quit after new CEO announces they will no longer have flexible work hours and part-timers must work at least 20 hours per week

Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed News :

2021-04-27
Crazy to me because the founders of this company, both of whom signed off on this blog post, are also coauthors of not one not two but THREE business books on work culture, one of which was a NYT bestseller https://basecamp.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-04-27 View on X
Jason Fried

Basecamp's CEO announces a ban on “societal and political discussions” at work, saying the company does not need to solve or even chime in on social problems

At Basecamp, we treat our company as a product.  It's not a rigid thing that exists, it's a flexible, malleable idea that evolves.

The founder of a popular project management software company, Basecamp, just banned employees from having any “discussion remotely related to politics, advocacy, or society” at work bc “it's a major distraction” & “redirects our dialog towards dark places” https://world.hey.com/...
2021-04-27 View on X
Jason Fried

Basecamp's CEO announces a ban on “societal and political discussions” at work, saying the company does not need to solve or even chime in on social problems

At Basecamp, we treat our company as a product.  It's not a rigid thing that exists, it's a flexible, malleable idea that evolves.

2021-04-01
News! An employee of a Google contractor in South Carolina will get her job back + the contractor will have to post a flyer promising not to violate workers' rights, per NLRB settlement of a unfair labor practice charge filed by the Alphabet Workers Union: https://cwa-union.org/...
2021-04-01 View on X
Bloomberg

Google promises not to silence workers discussing pay, as part of a settlement with a new union that represents hundreds of employees and contract workers

SECTION 7 OF THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO … Zoe Schiffer / The Verge : Google union wins dispute over discussing pay BeauHD / Slashdot : Google Promises ...

2021-01-13
one of the things this suit will argue is unconstitutional in california is the 7/8ths (!) supermajority that Prop 22 requires for any legislative amendments to the law https://www.latimes.com/...
2021-01-13 View on X
Washington Post

Gig workers and unions sue in CA Supreme Court to have Prop 22 overturned, alleging it violates the state constitution and limits the power of legislators

2020-12-05
New from me: Amazon Is Charged With Firing A Worker Just Because She Fought For Better Working Conditions https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... via @ceodonovan
2020-12-05 View on X
BuzzFeed News

NLRB has issued a complaint against Amazon in November over firing of warehouse employee who discussed pay and other workplace issues with her coworkers

from warehouse to tech workers — who were involved with workplace activism at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. Now one of them, Courtney Bowden, will get her retaliation ...

Amazon fired at least six employees — from warehouse to tech workers — who were involved with workplace activism at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. Now one of them, Courtney Bowden, will get her retaliation case heard before an NLRB judge in March. https://twitter.com/...
2020-12-05 View on X
BuzzFeed News

NLRB has issued a complaint against Amazon in November over firing of warehouse employee who discussed pay and other workplace issues with her coworkers

from warehouse to tech workers — who were involved with workplace activism at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. Now one of them, Courtney Bowden, will get her retaliation ...

2020-04-30
This reminds me of what started to happen at Google after the employee walkout in 2018 https://www.vox.com/... via @voxdotcom
2020-04-30 View on X
Vox

Sources: Amazon has begun cracking down on communication across its widely-read email listservs after employees used them to protest and organize

Shirin Ghaffary / Vox :

2020-04-24
Looks like Amazon doesn't plan to extend its unlimited unpaid time off policy, which means workers will have to decide whether to come in to work or potentially lose their jobs starting May 1: https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
2020-04-24 View on X
Business Insider

Amazon confirms a major outbreak of COVID-19 at a NJ warehouse after employee says 30+ are infected, as Amazon is set to end unlimited unpaid time off April 30

- Over 30 workers at an Amazon warehouse in Carteret, New Jersey, have contracted COVID-19, according to sources at the facility.

2020-04-19
New from me: Federal Labor Regulators Are Looking Into Claims That Amazon Violated Employee's Rights During The Coronavirus Pandemic https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... via @ceodonovan
2020-04-19 View on X
BuzzFeed News

Filing: NLRB is looking into claims that Amazon retaliated against workers who participated in labor protests on the pretext they broke social distancing rules

Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed News :

2020-04-14
Amazon has fired @emahlee, a tech employee and climate activist who spoke out in support of Amazon warehouse workers and was raising money for them as recently as March: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2020-04-14 View on X
Washington Post

Amazon fires two tech workers who'd been warned for publicly criticizing its warehouse workplace conditions and were outspoken critics of its climate stance

The workers had been outspoken critics of the e-commerce giant's climate policies and were previously warned about making public comments about its business

2020-04-07
What Jay Carney is saying here doesn't square with what I've heard from workers at all and ... doesn't appear to square with what the New York Times told him either https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2020-04-07 View on X
New York Times

Interviews with over 30 sources highlight Amazon's struggle to combat COVID-19, under pressure as orders rise, as the virus spreads to more than 50 warehouses

New York Times :

2020-03-24
Amazon employees successfully won paid time off after petitioning management for it: https://medium.com/...
2020-03-24 View on X
BuzzFeed News

Amazon now offers all US part-time and seasonal delivery employees paid time off amid COVID-19 outbreak; an employee group had been pressuring Amazon since Dec.

Thousands of Amazon Logistics employees will start accruing paid time off for the first time today, according to photos …

2020-03-18
this wasn't meant as promo but story link here if you want to read it! https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
2020-03-18 View on X
BuzzFeed News

Some warehouse workers say Amazon isn't doing enough to limit the spread of coronavirus within its fulfillment centers and demand additional protections

but isn't giving them enough time to do so, says worker Jonathan Bailey. The nearest bathroom is a 2-3 minute walk each way, reducing the amount of time workers have to meet compan...