Amazon threatened workers over union vote, US labour officials find


An Amazon signage on the LDJ5 Amazon Sort Center in New York City. The NLRB’s Brooklyn-based regional director has determined that, prior to that election, the company held mandatory ‘captive audience’ meetings at the warehouse in which it threatened that if workers chose the union to represent them, Amazon could use minimum wage pay as the starting point for negotiations. — AFP

US labour board prosecutors plan to accuse Amazon.com Inc of threatening staff that if they unionised it could propose paying them minimum wage and of punishing an employee for seeking a paid Juneteenth holiday.

Unless the company settles, the US National Labor Relations Board will issue a complaint, agency spokesperson Kayla Blado said Thursday. An Amazon spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

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