Labor officials have found that anti-union comments made by Amazon CEO Andy Jassy constituted a violation of federal labor laws.
said that the company believes that workers are better off not unionizing and that it would be harder for workers to have a relationship with management if they were in a union.
Through these comments, Amazon “has been interfering with, restraining, and coercing employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed” under federal labor law, National Labor Relations Board regional director Ronald Hooks said in the complaint. The company has denied wrongdoing, claiming that the comments were covered under labor laws.
The NLRB requests that the company be forced to post a notice and send an email to employees informing them of their rights. If the company chooses not to settle the case, a hearing over the comments has been set for February. ALU applauded the NLRB’s filing. “These plutocrats will no longer threaten workers in interviews with the media,” ALU attorney Seth Goldstein, who filed the charge against the company, toldAmazon has repeatedly broken the law during its workers’ union campaigns, according to the NLRB, by holding
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