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Apr 2021

10m 58s

Amazon on course to defeat union effort,...

Financial Times

About this episode

Amazon looked on course to defeat a historic effort by workers to unionise an Alabama warehouse, and companies and countries around the world are weighing the Biden administration’s global corporate tax plan. Plus, the FT’s markets editor, Katie Martin, explains Goldman Sachs’ purchase of £75m of Deliveroo shares after the UK food delivery group’s disappointing initial public offering last month.

Amazon vote count shows Alabama unionisation effort trailing

https://www.ft.com/content/df3eeb04-d03e-4048-ab81-248c7a9fce4e

Goldman Sachs bought £75m of Deliveroo shares to prop up IPO price

https://www.ft.com/content/bf75f260-33d8-42ea-85c3-6482aa1fb2ff

A grand bargain: how the radical US corporate tax plan would work

https://www.ft.com/content/b358ebca-4097-4cd6-bc7f-8e9d8f069250

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