October 6, 2024, 6:02am Business
More than two years after launching an audit to study racial equity in its warehouses, Amazon quietly released the results last month, revealing workers’ concerns over “inequities,” despite programs the company already has in place. Read story
October 6, 2024, 6:00am Business
Seattle’s Office of Labor Standards is investigating Amazon Logistics — the company’s vast network of delivery services — for alleged violations of labor laws, including the city’s ordinance requiring paid sick time for gig workers that went into effect this year. Read story
October 6, 2024, 6:00am Business
The automotive industry is flipping on its head a long tradition of car racing video games by bringing the gaming experience into the vehicles. Read story
October 6, 2024, 5:50am Business
Former President Donald Trump has been promising Michigan voters this fall that he can revive the state’s auto industry and return it to “greatness,” but the Republican nominee failed to fully deliver on similar guarantees, made eight years ago, before his first term in the White House. Read story
October 5, 2024, 6:14am Business
Lewis Record, 80, remembers the whisper of swaying branches and crisp scent of the air as he picked prunes in Fruit Valley in the 1950s. Read story
October 5, 2024, 6:13am Business Subscriber Exclusive
Smith Tower Apartments goes by many names: Vancouver’s beer can. The Capitol Records Tower of Vancouver. Mid-Columbia Manor. Read story
October 5, 2024, 6:02am Business
The era of remote work, ushered in by the pandemic, isn’t going away anytime soon. But new census data suggests that it’s passed its peak. And in Seattle, the share of folks working remotely fell more sharply last year than it did across the nation as a whole. Read story
October 5, 2024, 6:00am Business
The leaders of Saint Mark’s Cathedral on Capitol Hill have a vision: New neighbors living in the nearly century-old brick building the church owns just next to its cathedral. But landing one of Seattle’s overwhelmed affordable-housing developers proved challenging. Read story
