Amazon to hire 75,000 logistics workers
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The hiring spree continues at Amazon. The globe's largest online retailer on Thursday said it's looking to hire 75,000 fulfillment and logistics workers for its North American operations.
Amazon hired roughly 500,000 people last year as it bulked up to meet increased demand from Americans stuck at home due to the pandemic. The company employs 1.3 million people around the world. Now, as the economy starts to recover, companies are having a tough time attracting workers. Amazon said it would pay $100 to new recruits that come to work already vaccinated against COVID-19. The Seattle-based company's starting wage is more than $17 an hour, and it's offering signing bonuses of up to $1,000.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.
The knock at the door came at nighttime on Mother's Day 2008 in Oregon, where Jessica Ellis' parents lived. It was around 9:20 p.m. and his wife, Linda, was already in bed; her father Steve Ellis told CBS News, that he thought someone let their animals out — but two soldiers in Class A uniforms were standing at the door.