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Judge Finds Amazon Broke Labor Law in Anti-Union Effort [1]
['Noam Scheiber', 'More About Noam Scheiber']
Date: 2023-01-31
Amazon violated labor law in advance of unionization elections last year at two warehouses on Staten Island, a federal administrative judge has ruled.
The judge, who hears cases for the National Labor Relations Board, ruled on Monday that Amazon supervisors had illegally threatened to withhold wage and benefit increases from employees at the warehouses if they voted to unionize. The judge, Benjamin W. Green, also ruled that Amazon had illegally removed posts on a digital message board from an employee inviting co-workers to sign a petition being circulated by the Amazon Labor Union. The union sought to represent workers at both warehouses.
The ruling ordered Amazon to stop the unfair labor practices and to post a notice saying it would not engage in them.
In the same ruling, the judge dismissed several accusations brought in a complaint by the labor board’s prosecutors, including charges that Amazon indicated take-home pay would fall if workers unionized; that Amazon promised improvements in a program that subsidizes workers’ educational expenses if they chose not to unionize; and that Amazon indicated that workers would be fired if they unionized and failed to pay union dues.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/business/economy/amazon-union-staten-island-nlrb.html
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