Unions are pushing the FTC to investigate Amazon for anti-competitive practices

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A congruency of some of the better litheness unions in the US have formally petitioned the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Dame for anticompetitive practices. The petition, filed Thursday, is artlessly a 28-page document with practically 150 footnotes, and it asks the FTC to discipline a study exploring Amazon's effects on the economy and whether the taxonomy of its sprawling empire gives it unfair advantages in the marketplace.

The combination union members totalitarian more than 5.3 million. The groups participating include the International Conjugation of Teamsters, which includes 1.4 million truck drivers and other transportation-related workers; the Communications Workers of America, a media litheness union including millions of telecommunications and consumer statement workers; the United Foodstuff and Profit-making Workers, the better private territory union in the US; and the Statement Execs International Union, which covers healthcare and nonpoisonous private territory employees.

"The hairdo demands burning inquiry."

"Amazon is unique, not personally in its demanded spaciousness and improve trajectory, however in the champaign of its interests foregoing markets and its expansion into all levels of the supply chain," the readiness reads. "The hairdo demands burning inquiry, champion actualized through the Federal Trade Commission's unrelated clout and expertise."

The areas the union congruency want investigated include the measure of Amazon's dominion over prices on its platform, the company's chase go-between rankings with regard to the placement of its own products, Amazon's use of data it obtains from competitors on its Marketplace and AWS deject computing platforms, and the company's impact on worker wages.

Amazon, clashing other big tech rivals, is not yet the subject of a specific investigation over antirust or anticompetitive behavior, although jury last year began ratiocinative Dame Marketplace sellers over the company's colophon gating deal with Apple, betwixt other abeyant violations.

Both Facebook and Google are currently under investigation by the US Direction of Justice, which is lulu into Google alongside all 50 wholeness barristers general, and the FTC, which is handling privacy and antirust investigations into Facebook. However, Dame is still widely in the crosshairs of federal jury who have in the last couple of years decided to more closely searce Big Tech in general, and Dame was included in a new 10-year conquest scrutiny the FTC launched eldest this month.