Max Zahn
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Who else should win the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
Who would I pick if I were President? → Read More
Amazon workers at 100 more facilities want to unionize: Amazon Labor Union president
Employees at more than 100 U.S.-based Amazon facilities have contacted Amazon Labor Union President Chris Smalls about unionizing their workplaces since a historic union victory at a warehouse on Staten Island a week ago, Smalls told Yahoo Finance on Friday. → Read More
Matt Damon: The political left 'doesn't have a monopoly on compassion'
Matt Damon, the co-founder of a global water access philanthropy called Water.org, rebuked the notion that liberals tend to be more compassionate than their conservative counterparts. → Read More
Amazon workers won the company's first US union — here's what happens next
What happens next will determine the staying power of the union and, ultimately, whether it can achieve the historic feat of a US Amazon facility where pay, benefits, and working conditions are shaped in part by workers. → Read More
Amazon NYC workers win first US union in company's history
A labor drive at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island narrowly won a historic union election on Thursday, establishing the first union in the company's 28-year history. → Read More
Amazon union vote in Alabama could drag out amid contested ballots
After a day of counting, the Amazon union drive at a Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse is still up in the air. → Read More
Amazon faces ‘world-changing’ union vote in NYC
Vote counting will begin on Thursday in a union election at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island, where a crowd-funded, worker-led labor campaign has pushed the e-commerce giant to the brink of the first union in its 28-year history. → Read More
Amazon labor organizer optimistic about NYC union vote, hopes for Starbucks ‘domino effect’
The union campaign at the warehouse has built trust with workers amid its call for higher wages, bolstered COVID-19 precautions, and improved health and safety protections, Amazon Labor Union President Chris Smalls said. → Read More
Crypto investors should ‘buckle up’ for more volatility: Harvard lecturer
Vikram Mansharanmani expressed optimism about the fate of digital assets, saying cryptocurrency could become a modern-day equivalent of precious metals like gold that offer investors a hedge against riskier assets. → Read More
Starbucks baristas behind union drive describe 'super stressful' workplace
Yahoo Finance spoke with four current Starbucks employees involved in union campaigns who criticized a stressful workplace where COVID-related staffing shortages and exposure risks have resulted in heavier workloads. → Read More
BuzzFeed workers slam company as it goes public on Nasdaq
BuzzFeed went public comes days after dozens of workers at the outlet’s news division walked off the job in protest of a move they say enriches executives while the company refuses a union contract that would raise salaries for employees. → Read More
Robinhood Crypto COO: The idea of meme investing needs 'attitude adjustment'
The notion of 'meme investing' insults a growing set of well-informed retail investors who understand their longterm financial interest, Robinhood Crypto COO Christine Brown told the Yahoo Finance-Decrypt cryptocurrency event on Tuesday. → Read More
Robinhood crypto wallet has a waitlist of 1.6 million people: Crypto COO
Retail investor interest in Robinhood's (HOOD) forthcoming crypto wallet remains high, a company executive said at the Yahoo Finance-Decrypt cryptocurrency event on Tuesday. → Read More
Thousands of Amazon workers in NYC want a union. Will they win?
The union election on Staten Island will mark just the second such vote in the company’s 27-year history, following the overwhelming defeat in April of a union at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. → Read More
Ex-Barclays CEO Jes Staley is one of many business figures with ties to Jeffrey Epstein
Barclays CEO Jes Staley is leaving the bank after an investigation by British authorities into his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. But Staley is hardly the only major business figure who knew Epstein. → Read More
COVID-19 vaccine mandates: Unions divided over 'complex problem' for organized labor
Unions are increasingly willing to support vaccine mandates but also insistent that they help shape implementation, as the Delta variant continues to drive a wave of infections. But some labor groups remain opposed. → Read More
CEO-worker pay gap 'skyrocketing' amid pandemic: AFL-CIO Sec. Treasurer
Liz Shuler, the secretary-treasurer of AFL-CIO, told Yahoo Finance in a recent interview that the CEO-to-worker pay ratio has risen dramatically during the pandemic, describing the trend as a symptom of "runaway inequality." → Read More
Jeff Bezos made Amazon a behemoth, but his legacy is complicated
On July 5, Jeff Bezos will officially step down as CEO of the company he founded in 1994. Bezos’ decision to leave the post marks a new era for the e-commerce giant. → Read More
Why the Teamsters union drive at Amazon could succeed where Bessemer faltered
The Teamsters, which represents more than a million U.S. workers, could succeed where the Bessemer campaign faltered because it boasts size and deep pockets to match those of Amazon, labor experts told Yahoo Finance. → Read More
Teamsters launch campaign to organize Amazon workers
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, one of the nation’s largest labor unions, approved on Thursday an ambitious effort to unionize employees at e-commerce giant Amazon (AMZN), the union told Yahoo Finance. → Read More