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UPS and FedEx imposed new fuel surcharges last month, and the U.S.
Postal Service says starting April 26, it's adding an 8 percent surcharge to package and shipping services, including priority mail and parcel select.
First-class stamps will not be affected.
Starting April 17th, Amazon third-party sellers will see a 3.5% increase to their fulfillment fees.
In a message to sellers, the company said that equates to an average of 17 cents per unit, a cost sellers could pass on to customers.
Amazon said it had been absorbing increased fuel prices.
But like other major carriers, it was hiking fees to recover a portion of its added costs.
UPS and FedEx imposed new fuel surcharges last month, and the U.S.
Postal Service says starting April 26, it's adding an 8 percent surcharge to package and shipping services, including priority mail and parcel select.
First-class stamps will not be affected.
This order comes four years after workers at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island ran a grassroots campaign to unionize and shocked corporate America when they won.
But Amazon fought back by challenging the results of the union election and refusing to sit down for contract negotiations.
In 2024, the Amazon Labor Union joined forces with the Teamsters and continued to press the case.
Now, the National Labor Relations Board, with its two new Trump appointees, has found that Amazon violated federal law by refusing to recognize and bargain with the union.
Still, the board has no power to force Amazon to start bargaining.
If Amazon does not comply with the order, the board's general counsel must ask a federal court to intervene.
For the second year in a row, women have lost ground.