For Amazon, the overwhelming win may temper fears among executives that unionization could take off across its work force.
The result was a setback for the upstart Amazon Labor Union, which last month scored an against-all-odds win at the larger, nearby Amazon warehouse.
But labor experts and organizers say it can be harder to unionize workers who are less economically secure, since they may be more susceptible to pressure from an employer and more reluctant to risk getting involved in a union campaign.
While the union campaign that succeeded at the larger Amazon warehouse last month included a large fraction of full-time workers, a higher proportion of workers at the smaller facility are part-time.
The employees whose votes were counted on Monday work at LDJ5.
Speaking to supporters outside the labor board’s office in Brooklyn where the votes were tallied, Derrick Palmer, who co-founded the union, said the union would keep pushing.
A year ago, workers at the largest facility, which Amazon calls JFK8, began trying to form an independent union, without deep ties to organized labor, to represent the thousands of employees at the massive fulfillment center who pick and pack items into boxes for individual orders.
The union at JFK8 started as a scrappy effort by two best friends that was supported via GoFundMe appeals.
The leaders, Christian Smalls and Mr. Palmer, met with the heads of major labor unions, who vowed resources and support.
At JFK8, workers often have 10 hour shifts, if not longer, four days a week, but at LDJ5, many work part-time.
But part-time workers are typically harder to organize because they interact less and have lower overall investment in their workplace.
The union pressed for the vote despite the fact that many of its top officials and organizers work at JFK8 rather than the smaller facility, giving the group a weaker presence inside.
Last year, when a different union objected to its loss at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama, the union was granted a hearing on more than 20 of its objections on similar grounds.
Ofori Agboka, the vice president responsible for human resources in Amazon’s operations globally, visited the building.
Organizers said that for much of the campaign at JFK8, Amazon had tried to paint the union as a “third party” that would come between workers and management.
For example, the constitution says workers can be removed from the group if they interfere in the conduct of union business or don’t behave properly at meetings.
In a letter to JetBlue, Spirit executives said they had determined that JetBlue’s acquisition offer, which was updated on Friday, would be unlikely to secure regulatory approval as long as that airline’s recently announced partnership with American Airlines was in effect.
Both deals would face scrutiny from Biden administration regulators, who have expressed more skepticism about consolidation than their predecessors.
Some analysts contend that Spirit and Frontier are better suited to merge because they operate under similar “ultra-low-cost” business models but have more extensive flights in different parts of the United States.
JetBlue also said it would commit to divesting Spirit assets in New York and Boston, markets at the heart of JetBlue’s partnership with American, known as the Northeast Alliance, in an effort to win approval from the Justice Department.
Spirit’s leadership responded in a letter to JetBlue’s chief executive on Monday, saying they did not think that the updated offer had a reasonable chance of succeeding.
JetBlue said in response that both its offer and the Frontier deal shared “a similar regulatory profile,” but that Frontier had not offered to divest assets or pay a breakup fee.
JetBlue, which has long maintained a big presence at New York’s Kennedy International Airport, has been limited by gate availability at the region’s busy airports.
The network did not name the reporter in its note, but did include links to the articles in question.
The articles included a report on the partisan political fight over inflation in which two passages were removed and coverage of comments by former President Donald J.
The case illustrates Europe’s strategy of using several kinds of action to regulate the digital economy.
The charges against Apple, after an investigation that began in 2020, were announced in Brussels on Monday by Margrethe Vestager, the European Commission executive vice president in charge of antitrust enforcement.
European regulators have been trying to address what they see as abusive business practices by big tech companies that use their dominance in one area to take control of adjacent markets.
Google has been fined billions of euros for using the dominance of its search engine, its Android mobile operating system and its advertising services to box out rivals.
Europe’s tough approach to technology regulation long found little echo in the United States, but American authorities have begun to use antitrust enforcement to crimp the power of Big Tech.
With his $44 billion deal to take Twitter private, The Times’s Anupreeta Das and Lauren Hirsch write, Elon Musk is departing from the traditional private equity playbook.
Mr. Musk’s push for unfettered “free speech” on Twitter could find itself in conflict with the company’s basic need to pay off its new debt.
The company doesn’t yet have other meaningful sources of revenue, although it has experimented with subscriptions.
The acquisition is also a big financial risk for Mr. Musk, more than usual for private equity-style buyers who often limit their exposure by using mostly borrowed money instead of cash.
Because Mr. Musk is both selling Tesla shares and putting them up as collateral for personal loans to raise cash, Tesla’s value would be linked to Twitter’s.
Over the past two years, Americans who own their homes have gained more than $6 trillion in housing wealth, Emily Badger and Quoctrung Bui of New York Times’s Upshot report.
Rather, they write most of this money has been created by the simple fact that housing, in short supply and high demand across America, has appreciated at record pace during the pandemic.
It’s a remarkably positive story for Americans who own a home; it’s also inseparable from the housing affordability crisis for those who don’t.
On the evening of April 13, Mr. Musk, who had amassed a more than 9 percent stake in Twitter, sent a text message to Bret Taylor, Twitter’s chairman, telling him he would be sending him an offer letter.
He had obtained commitments from Morgan Stanley and other lenders for $13 billion in debt financing, while another group of banks promised $12.5 billion in loans against his stock in Tesla.
At Twitter, Mr. Taylor weighed employee uncertainty and the societal implications of a deal versus the board’s fiduciary duty, people with knowledge of the situation said.
The next day, a Sunday, Twitter’s board concluded that it had to make a deal with Mr. Musk.
Amazon union: The National Labor Relations Board will begin to count ballots from Amazon workers seeking to unionize at a second warehouse on Staten Island.
Fed rate decision: The Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates half a percentage point in its two-day policy meeting, following its quarter-point increase in March.
England’s rate decision: The Bank of England is expected to raise interest rates a quarter of a percentage point in its policy meeting, but some economists forecast that the increase could be as much as half a point.
OPEC Plus meeting: The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies, including Russia, will meet to discuss whether they should raise output in May by 432,000 barrels a day.
Jobs report: The Labor Department will publish the widely watched jobs report, which is expected to show that employers added 385,000 jobs in April.
It lifted interest rates in March for the first time since 2018, by a quarter of a percentage point, and has set the stage for an even larger increase of half a percentage point this week.
But while the rate decision is unlikely to be a surprise, economists and investors will want to know how the Fed plans to move forward at a time when inflation is rising faster than it has in decades.
On one hand, the Fed’s small rate increase has already pushed mortgage rates sharply higher, which may start to weigh on the housing market and cool off related types of demand.
A higher-than-expected jump in wage data released Friday made a second big increase in June more likely “at the margin,” wrote Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics.
The drop shows many investors are coming to the same conclusion: The economy is about to take a hit, and everywhere they look, they see trouble ahead.