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Congressman Andy Levin says a new era for the labor movement has only just begun
By Lee DeVito
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Labor, Andy Levin, unions, labor, Amazon, Cover Story
Amazon plans to add 5 new centers in metro Detroit, spurring 2,000 permanent jobs
By Steve Neavling
Tags: Amazon, Detroit, Hazel Park, Pontiac, Huron Township, fulfillment center, jobs, Mayor Duggan, Michigan State Fairgrounds, bandshell
MacKenzie Scott, philanthropist and ex-wife to Amazon overlord, donates millions to non-profits
By Jerilyn Jordan
Tags: News Hits, Bezos, Amazon, Michigan, MacKenzie Scott, Rashida, State Fairgrounds, COVID-19
'Tis the season for serious injuries at Amazon's Michigan warehouses
Tags: Amazon, Michigan, Detroit, #MakeAmazonPay, Black Friday
Appeals court OKs sale of Michigan State Fairgrounds for $400 million Amazon center
By Danny Wicentowski
Tags: Detroit, Michigan State Fairgrounds, Amazon, Mayor Mike Duggan, Readers' Choice
Court grants temporary restraining order blocking sale of Michigan State Fairgrounds for Detroit Amazon facility
Tags: Michigan State Fairgrounds, Amazon, Detroit
Lawsuit seeks to halt sale of State Fairgrounds for Amazon center in Detroit
Tags: Sugar Law Center, Michigan State Fairground, Amazon, Lawrence Garcia, Detroit, Amazon, lawsuit, Wayne County Circuit Court, Mayor Duggan, Community Benefits Ordinance, Community Outreach Ordinance
The dream of a ‘21st Century’ Michigan Fairgrounds is dead. Detroit (and Amazon) killed it.
As Amazon proposal for Fairgrounds nears completion, Detroiters mourn what could have been
Tags: Detroit, Michigan State Fairground, Amazon, Mayor Mike Duggan, Frank Hammer
Reps. Tlaib and Dingell confronted by police before finding 'unsafe conditions' at Amazon warehouse in Romulus
Tags: Amazon, Rep. Tlaib, Rep. Dingell, Romulus, Amazon fullfilment center, coronavirus, Washington D.C., U.S. house, workers
Before celebrating all the jobs the new Detroit Amazon center will bring, remember that this is grueling, ruthless work
Tags: Amazon, Detroit, Mayor Mike Duggan
Amazon wants to build $400M distribution center with 1,200 new jobs at Michigan State Fairgrounds site in Detroit
Tags: Michigan State Fairgrounds, 8 Mile, Woodward, Mayor Duggan, Amazon, jobs, Hillwood Investment Properties, The Sterling Group
Prosecutor refuses to charge Black Amazon driver for resisting arrest after parking incident in Warren
Tags: Racism, Warren, Warren police, Amazon, arrest, police, NAACP
Overzealous police? Black Amazon driver arrested for resisting arrest after parking on wrong side of the street
Tags: Warren, Warren police, police, Commissioner Dwyer, Mayor Fouts, racism, Amazon, parking
Warren mayor calls arrest of Black Amazon driver 'outrageous and unacceptable'
Tags: Amazon, racism, police, excessive force, Mayor Fouts, Warren, arrest, video
Dildos are non-essential, Amazon worker says, as Romulus facility protests conditions amid coronavirus crisis
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News Hits, Amazon, covid-19, coronavirus, workers rights, Jeff Bezos, Detroit, Romulus
New tax code leaves workers paying higher tax rate than corporations
By Diane Bernard, Michigan News Connection
Tags: General Motors, Amazon, corporate taxes, corporate welfare
Amazon wants to turn Pontiac Silverdome site into a distribution center
By Gabriel Silver
Tags: News Hits, Amazon, Jeff Bezos, Pontiac, Silverdome, distribution center
Seattle raised Amazon's taxes to help the poor as Michigan offered the company $4B
By Tom Perkins
Tags: News Hits, Amazon, Detroit Amazon, $4b Detroit Amazon, Dan Gilbert, Jeff Bezos, Jeff Bezos Detroit, Corporate welfare
State won't say how much of your money it wanted to give Amazon — that's Gilbert's 'trade secret'
By Violet Ikonomova
Tags: News Hits, Detroit, amazon, dan gilbert, mike duggan, rick snyder, corporate welfare, corporate giveaway, tax subsidies, tax incentives, race to the bottom
Amazon HQ2 not coming to Detroit; city doesn't make the company's top 20
Tags: News Hits, Detroit, Amazon, HQ2, investment, Dan Gilbert, jobs
Now that it’s lit up, people seem to like Detroit’s new I-94 sign
Pot-friendly Michigan music venue scales back programming
What’s happening in Detroit on 4/20?
By Layla McMurtrie