"What we learned from the pandemic is that any potential disruption can cause ripple effects up and down the supply chain," University of Southern California associate professor Juan De Lara, who studies warehouse jobs, labor and unions, told CBS News Wednesday night.■ Amazon workers protest in...
De Lara studies the warehouse jobs, labor and unions at the university. "It could be that they can handle it and there will be no problems," he said. "It could be that one small element of their supply chain gets disrupted and that has ripple effects and that can be ...
Amazon is significantly expanding its white-collar presence in Southern California, announcing office leases to accommodate 2,500 new corporate and technology jobs in Santa Monica, Irvine and San Diego. The e-commerce giant said Tuesday that it has signed three leases, which combine for 439,000 s...
The top 5 highest paying jobs at Amazon with reported salaries are: director - $584k per year senior sales manager - $546k per year senior technical program manager - $522k per year venture capitalist - $494k per year senior corporate counsel - $468k per year What are the new...
"Teaching new hires is always rewarding, no matter the circumstance. However, it's incomparable to now," said Lewis, a learning manager at the OAK4 fulfillment center in Tracy, California. "A lot of the current new hires had jobs and careers two months ago and now have to make ends ...
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(Amazon has no warehouses there.) Union organizers said the Southern California warehouse industry relies heavily on temporary workers, most of whom get no health insurance. Two companies there were hit with more than $1 million in state fines for failure to keep proper pay records, and they ...
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“What totally amazed me was watching the students engage beyond what I ever expected. They were asking questions about how the solar panels work, and they were asking about the career opportunities,” she said. “I now have a binder full of different types of jobs that...
“obsessed” with the well being of its workers as it was with the people buying all those household products. My colleague Josh Dziezawrote earlier this yearabout how the company has increasingly come to treat its warehouse workers as robots, automating every possible aspect of their jobs in...