Amazon accused of violating U.S. labor law after union supporters' arrests


FILE PHOTO A banner reading quotVOTEquot is seen hanging at an Amazon facility on the first day of the unionization vote in Bessemer  Alabama U.S. February 4 2022. REUTERSDustin ChambersFile Photo

FILE PHOTO: A banner reading "VOTE" is seen hanging at an Amazon facility on the first day of the unionization vote in Bessemer, Alabama, U.S., February 4, 2022. REUTERS/Dustin Chambers/File Photo

(Reuters) -A group of Amazon.com Inc workers seeking to form a union in New York filed a charge with U.S. labor regulators on Thursday after a high-profile organizer and a pair of employees were arrested outside a company warehouse, according to documents obtained by Reuters.

Amazon organizer Christian Smalls told Reuters on Wednesday he was arrested when he delivered warehouse workers food as part of the union campaign he is leading.

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