Business NY warehouse safety law calls out Amazon, industry risks An Amazon employee loads delivery containers onto a transport cart at a warehouse in Carle Place.

Amazon fined $5.9 million for enforcing illegal warehouse quotas FILE – People leave the entrance to the Amazon San Bernardino Fulfillment Center, October 29, 2013 in San Bernardino, Calif. (AP ...

Last Wednesday, Derrick Palmer clocked in for his 7:15 a.m. shift at Amazon’s giant warehouse on Staten Island and spent the day packing boxes with board games, iPhones and mini vacuum cleaners.

After months of planning and negotiations, Amazon has struck a deal to build an 18-acre distribution and Warehouse facility at an industrial park in Champlain, New York.

On Wednesday, workers at the warehouse known as ALB1, located in the village of Castleton-on-Hudson, near Albany, began voting on whether to join the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) which is fighting, in ...

Chris Smalls, right, the head of the Amazon Labor Union, speaks to Amazon workers and supporters at the rally in Castleton-On-Hudson, about 15 miles south of Albany, N.Y., Mon., Oct. 10, 2022.

Amazon’s JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island employs about 7,500 people. Bloomberg via Getty Images The union’s victory comes after years of knock-down, drag-out fighting between Amazon and activists.