Oct 18 (Reuters) - The outcome of Amazon.com Inc's fourth union election this year is expected as early as Tuesday, when U.S.

labor board officials begin counting ballots that workers in an upstate New York warehouse submitted over the past week.

JERUSALEM, March 21 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who has been trying to mediate an end to the Ukraine-Russia conflict, said on Monday that despite some progress big gaps remained between the sides.

Neville said human rights records in the UAE and Saudi Arabia - who are both heavily involved in football through their ownership of Manchester City and Newcastle, respectively - were 'worse', but the two countries seem to avoid the level of scrutiny and criticism aimed at Qatar.

** "The investment lens through which global investors evaluate opportunities in China has changed and the strategies deployed towards investing in the Middle Kingdom need to adapt accordingly," wrote Norman Vilamin, CIO of Wealth Management at Union Bancaire Privee.

average starting pay for front-line staff as well, to more than $19 per hour from over $18; industrywide, median pay in the warehousing and storage sector was $18.38 as of May 2021, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The longer-established Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union also was unable to organize an Amazon warehouse in Alabama this year, though that result is not yet final. It then lost an attempt to unionize a second facility in New York hardly a month later.

At ALB1, the retailer's fulfillment center in Castleton-on-Hudson, hundreds of employees had the chance to decide whether to join the Amazon Labor Union. Led by former Amazon employee Christian Smalls, the ALU by April won a majority vote to form the retailer's first-ever U.S.

labor board director's review of objections by Amazon. It cannot collectively bargain until then. It faced some internal dissent and is awaiting certification of its initial Staten Island win, pending a U.S.

Sept 16 (Reuters) - Hong Kong stocks fell for the fourth straight day to a 10-month closing low, as shares of embattled Chinese developer China Evergrande Group tumbled to their lowest in a decade, sparking contagion fears.

'We either decide we are going to work with these nations in the middle east - we have sold about 40 billion quid's worth of arms to middle eastern countries over the last 10 years as a UK Government, they own half of London and are probably donating to the Conservative party.

Unionizing Amazon has long been a goal for the U.S.

labor movement seeking to represent staff at America's second-largest private employer after Walmart Inc and aiming to stem practices some workers have criticized, such as productivity tracking. A second victory would give the ALU momentum to organize still more facilities.

A loss would revive skepticism about whether the ALU can rally workers whose employer has famously discouraged unionization. In the past year Amazon disparaged unions in bathroom signage as well as in workshops it required thousands of employees to attend.

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Just this month, it petitioned to hold a union vote in an Amazon warehouse in Southern California, and it backed a staff protest of work conditions in Staten Island following a fire; Amazon suspended some workers afterward.

E-commerce powerhouse Alibaba, which became China's first regulatory target late last year, is expected to post a 12% decline in profit in the quarter.

Revenue will likely rise 32%, the slowest in a year.

'We either decide that we collaborate with these countries, and try and impact change through football - which is what I think we should always do - or we say we're never going to let them play sport, we're never going to have a World Cup there, we're never going to allow them to compete against us because they don't have what would be as progressive rights as they should have.

Beijing has reasserted control over its once-freewheeling internet sector, punishing well-known names for engaging in what were previously considered regular market practices and drafting new rules to change how they compete and engage users.

'Saudi Arabia have come into our country to own Newcastle and they've got terrible human rights issues over there - the journalist killed there a few years ago, for example - and people work for them in this country.

Still, with a recent slowdown in the pace of new regulatory missives that has stoked market optimism, investors will watch closely for clues on whether the worst is over and executives are likely be quizzed on their expectations on conference calls.

Gary Neville has suggested Qatar are more harshly treated than Saudi Arabia and the UAE when it comes to criticism of their human rights record as he launched another impassioned defence of his decision to work for a state-owned broadcaster at the World Cup.