It hasn’t been an easy road to recovery for many restaurant owners since the pandemic hammered their businesses. They’ve dealt with inflation, supply chain issues, labor shortages, and the fallout… Read More
Delivery drivers for Grubhub, Uber Eats, DoorDash, Instacart and other companies left the Seattle City Council holding the bag this week — or, 400 bags — in a protest aimed… Read More
Five evenings a week, sometimes more, Carmen Figueroa gets into her car, signs into her GrubHub account and sets out for a night of deliveries. She averages three-to-four deliveries an… Read More
Eight in 10 Americans believe the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour is too low and two thirds support increasing it to $15 an hour. The findings are part… Read More
People apparently lined up to work at Amazon’s warehouses and Whole Foods stores in the weeks following the tech giant’s announcement of a new $15 minimum wage for all workers… Read More
The number of Amazonians continues to rise, and the tech giant has hit a milestone of more than 600,000 employees around the world for the first time. Amazon now employs… Read More
Amazon sent a letter to U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders assuring him that the company’s new $15 minimum wage and pay structure will result in increased compensation for all warehouse workers.… Read More
Today’s featured stories Amazon criticized for ending warehouse bonuses and stock awards in shift to $15/hour wage Nintendo plans new Switch hardware for 2019 release, report says Silicon Valley VC… Read More
Not all Amazon employees are happy with the company raising their wages to at least $15 an hour. That’s because the tech giant is phasing out stock options and monthly… Read More
Just before Amazon announced it will raise employees’ minimum wage to $15 an hour, one of the company’s first investors made some prescient remarks about corporate social responsibility. Nick Hanauer,… Read More
After weeks of hammering Amazon for its treatment of its warehouse workers, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders applauded Tuesday’s announcement that all employees of the tech giant will receive at least… Read More
Nick Hanauer has gotten rich because of an uncanny ability to predict where things are headed. He was the first early investor in Amazon; he bet on drone company Insitu… Read More
Throwing his weight behind Jenny Durkan, Mayor Murray announces he won’t re-enter the race It’s official: Mayor Ed Murray will not be running for re-election. He first bowed out of… Read More
