Amazon allegedly called union organizers 'thugs' to discourage workers from unionizing
The National Labor Relations Board has accused Amazon of threatening, surveilling and interrogating workers at its JFK8 warehouse in New York to discourage them from unionizing. According to the board's complaint as seen by, Amazon brought a union avoidance consultant to the facility and told employees that it"would be futile for them to select the Union as their bargaining representative.
" The consultant reportedly said that union organizing at the warehouse would fail anyway, because theNLRB's complaint also said that Amazon representatives interrogated workers about union activities and promised to fix their issues if they didn't support the union and didn't distribute union literature. Further, the labor board alleges that security guards confiscated union literature from workers and told them they couldn't distribute the materials without permission.
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