Amazon illegally called police on employees, restricted union talk, US labour board alleges


A sign rests on a chair as workers who unionised with the Teamsters picket outside one of the Amazon’s distribution centers on July 24, 2023, in Palmdale, California. In an Aug 21 filing, a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board accused the eretailer of repeatedly violating federal law in the spring, summer and fall of 2022 at a warehouse located outside Albany, New York. — AP

Amazon.com Inc illegally called the police on employees, restricted discussions about organising, and terminated an activist in the lead-up to a vote on unionisation last year, US labour board prosecutors alleged in a complaint.

In a Monday filing, a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board, accused the eretailer of repeatedly violating federal law in the spring, summer and fall of 2022 at a warehouse located outside Albany, New York. Amazon “has been interfering with, restraining, and coercing employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed” under federal law, the regional director wrote in the complaint, issued on behalf of the agency’s general counsel.

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