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Employees at packing stations are seen at Amazon’s Kent fulfillment center, a showpiece for the company’s coronavirus response, Thursday, June 11, 2020.

Amazon shareholders approve $212M payout to CEO Jassy, reject worker safety, climate initiatives

The failed proposals included efforts to nix Amazon's worker quota system, require a report on the company's plastic use and examine whether its business practices create racial and gender disparities.

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Google Maps contract workers in Washington state are resisting a plan to resume in-person work, citing health concerns and commuting costs. Shown a man using Google Maps in London in 2019. (Andrew Testa / The New York Times)
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Google Maps workers in WA say they can’t afford the trip back to the office

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Planning to buy a house in WA? Check the wildfire risk on this map

Gubernatoral candidate Joshua Freed has filed suit in Federal Court against Jay Inslee. Conservative and Libertarian groups gathered at the steps of the State Capitol in Olympia to protest Gov. Inslee’s stay at home order, and to demand a reopening of business and society. Photographed Sunday, April 19, 2020 213712
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Former WA gubernatorial candidate accused of misleading real estate investors

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For story about landlords smacking tenants with super high damage claims: Natasha Pabon photographed outside her former apartment building in Olympia, WA, May 10, 2022. (Photo by Dan DeLong)
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More WA renters are overcharged for damages, advocates say, and there’s little tenants can do

FILE – In this July 23, 2002 file photo, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer logo graces the entrance gates company’s former location in Santa Monica, Calif. MGM Inc. is preparing to receive binding acquisition offers Friday, March 18, 2010, as it again looks for a corporate savior for its troubles. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File) NYBZ136
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After billion-dollar acquisition of MGM, Amazon inherits a foe: Starz

Thursday, May 19, 2022. While giving his keynote speech the President of Iceland, Dr. Guðni Th. Jóhannesson listens to Siri after asking her if she can speak the Icelantic lauguage. (she can’t). He was the keynote speaker at the Nordic Museum’s Nordic Innovation Summit today. 220422
Business

Iceland’s president talks Big Tech, small languages and ‘digital death’ in Seattle visit

A car streams past Boeing’s Advanced Developmental Composites facility on East Marginal Way S. In Seattle Tuesday, January 5, 2020. This massive, windowless box-like building, the Boeing 9-101 Building, has housed many secretive developmental and research projects. It was here Boeing perfected the manufacturing methods used to fabricate large parts of the B-2 Stealth bomber in the early 1990s and the wings of the 787 in the 2000s. Boeing is planning to close this manufacturing research and development center. 216055
Economy

Boeing goes on hiring blitz as WA job market rebounds; see who else is hiring big

Workplace

A worker assembles truck engine cooling module components at the MAHLE Behr Charleston Inc. auto part facility in Charleston, South Carolina, U.S., on Tuesday, March 20, 2018. .

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Technology

A passenger from the first international flight to arrive at the new International Arrivals Facility (IAF) at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, a Delta Air Lines flight from Seoul-Incheon, stops to take a photo in IAF’s Grand Hall, a 450,000 square foot baggage claim and customs processing area on April 19, 2022.

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Tech Reviews & Tips

A person typing at a backlit computer keyboard in, Dec. 29, 2020. . MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Chris Ratcliffe

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Real Estate

Wed. Sept. 20, 2017. Looking south from Hollywood Hill area of Woodinville down the 45th Legislative District that will vote on a Senate seat that will determine whether Democrats will have complete control in Olympia. 203543

Two WA cities among ‘most popular’ housing markets, report says. Here’s what’s luring buyers.

Retail

FILE – Starbucks employees and supporters react as votes are read during a union-election watch party on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, in Buffalo, N.Y. It’s become a common sight: jubilant Starbucks workers celebrating after successful votes to unionize at dozens of U.S. stores. But when the celebrations die down, a daunting hurdle remains. To win the changes they seek, like better pay and more reliable schedules, unionized stores must sit down with Starbucks and negotiate a contract. It’s a painstaking process that can take years. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex, File) NYBZ803

Unionized Starbucks stores face hard work of bargaining VIEW

Maritime Industry

The fishing boat Pinnacle makes its way through an ice floe on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022 in the Bering Sea southwest of St. Matthew Island. The Pinnacle, which is larger than most fishing boats that operate in the Bering Sea, can travel through some unconsolidated sea ice, although at a greatly-reduced speed. An ice floe with pieces like this can damage buoys, increasing the risk of a lost crab pot. (Loren Holmes / Anchorage Daily News)

Into the ice: A crab boat’s quest for snow crab in a Bering Sea upended by climate change

Boeing & Aerospace

In this infrared image from video made available by NASA, the Boeing Starliner capsule uses parachutes as it descends to land at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on Wednesday, May 25, 2022. (NASA via AP) NASA101 NASA101

Boeing capsule lands back on Earth after space shakedown WATCH

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The final version of the 737 MAX, the MAX 10, takes off from Renton Airport in Renton, WA on its first flight Friday, June 18, 2021.

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Amazon

Employees at packing stations are seen at Amazon’s Kent fulfillment center, a showpiece for the company’s coronavirus response, Thursday, June 11, 2020.

Amazon shareholders approve $212M payout to CEO Jassy, reject worker safety, climate initiatives

Amazon’s start

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos in the basement launch site for his web venture. File Photo Jimi Lott 9/13/95 : AMAZON.COM’S JEFF BEZOS : INTERNET’S ULTIMATE CULT FIGURE : WHEN AMAZON.COM WAS JUST A FLEDGLING BUSINESS, JEFF BEZOS POSED WITH A CART OF BOOKS IN THE BASEMENT FROM WHICH THE BUSINESS WAS LAUNCHED. NOW, THE COMPANY SELLS ALL KINDS OF PRODUCTS AND BEZOS IS A BILLIONAIRE. (2 OF 2)

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Microsoft

Activision at the E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. Photographer: Troy Harvey/Bloomberg

Video game workers create first union at big U.S. game maker

Economy

John F. Kerry, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate of the United States of America, left, and William H. Gates, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA, right, attends a Press Conference on First Movers Coalition Announce Expansion, during the 51st annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, May 25, 2022. The forum has been postponed due to the Covid-19 outbreak and was rescheduled to early summer. The meeting brings together entrepreneurs, scientists, corporate and political leaders in Davos under the topic “History at a Turning Point: Government Policies and Business Strategies” from 22 – 26 May 2022. (Gian Ehrenzeller/Keystone via AP) MAS232 MAS232

Corporations pledge to buy ‘green’ at Davos gathering VIEW

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Money Makeovers

Teri Allen is hoping her finances will enable her to retire when she wants to. Photographed Wednesday, April 21, 2021 216947

She’s worked almost 40 years in one place. Now, can she retire before 65?

Personal Finance

Husband and wife Angelyn and Richard Burk aboard a Carnival Cruise Line ship in March 2022. The couple has decided to spend their retirement on cruise ships. (Family photo)

Seattle accountant retires on cruise ships to save money

Markets

Traders work on the New York Stock Exchange floor in New York City on Friday, May 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

Asian stocks lower after Fed confirms rate hike plans

Artificial Intelligence

The State of Washington Employment Security Department, closed due to Covid-19, seen Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021 in Olympia.

The IRS dropped ID.me’s facial recognition tech after backlash. WA is rolling it out in June

Local Business

People wear face masks as they shop at the Nordstrom Local DTLA downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, March 15, 2022. Inflation is at a 40-year high. Stock prices are sinking. The Federal Reserve is making borrowing much costlier. Home sales are down, and mortgage rates are up. And the economy actually shrank in the first three months of this year. Is the United States at risk of enduring another recession, just two years after emerging from the last one? For now, even the more pessimistic economists don’t foresee any imminent downturn, at least not before next year. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) NYPS207

Nordstrom and Rack recovering as sales surge and shoppers return

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UK foreign secretary visits Bosnia to pledge support

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One honey bee nestles on a flower and another is in flight at the tail end of this orchard bloom at Hood River Cherry Company Credit: Hal Bernton Dateline: Hood River, Oregon Date: May, 20222

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