The US National Labour Relations Board has found that two outspoken Amazon workers were illegally fired last year. Both employees, Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa, worked at Amazon offices in Seattle and publicly criticised the company, pushing it to do more to reduce its impact on climate change and to better protect warehouse workers from the coronavirus.
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Emily Cunningham, left, and Maren Costa worked at Amazon offices in Seattle and publicly criticised the company, pushing it to do more to reduce its impact on climate change and to better protect warehouse workers from the coronavirus. They were found to have been illegally fired.
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Katyanna Quach Tue 6 Apr 2021 // 06:33 UTC Share
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In Brief Twitter has suspended multiple accounts purporting to be Amazon warehouse workers defending the mega-souk’s working conditions and speaking out against unionization.
All eyes are on the e-commerce giant as thousands of workers in America try to form a union.
The corporation s PR people also just admitted they scored an own goal in badly handling criticism of its working environments, and the US National Labor Relations Board determined Amazon illegally fired two of its workers, as reported by the New York Times. Those staffers, Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa, had publicly urged their bosses to do more on climate change and address complaints raised by the dotcom s warehouse workers.
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March 30 (Reuters) - The votes on whether to form a union at Amazon.com Inc’s sprawling Alabama fulfillment center are set to be reviewed starting on Tuesday, with momentum for future labor organizing at America’s second-largest private employer hanging in the balance.
An agent from the U.S. National Labor Relations Board will sift through ballots sent to more than 5,800 workers at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama-based warehouse as part of a prolonged process expected to last days and spark legal challenges.
Tallying votes might not begin until later this week or next, after both Amazon and the union check the eligibility of ballots cast, said a person familiar with the process. Subsequent procedures and objections could further forestall a certified result, the person said.
Amazon’s Firing of 2 Critics Was lllegal, Rules National Labor Board By Aakriti Bhalla and Jeffrey Dastin | April 6, 2021
Amazon.com Inc. illegally fired two employees who advocated for better working conditions during the pandemic, the U.S. National Labor Relations Board has found.
The online retailer last year terminated the employment of Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa, who accused the company of enforcing policies in a discriminatory fashion and having vague rules that “chill and restrain” staff from exercising rights, according to their charge filed in October, seen by Reuters.
The board said on Monday that its regional director in Seattle will issue a complaint if the parties do not settle the case.
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