Amazon Illegally Fired Activist Workers, Labor Board Finds The two employees had publicly pushed the company to reduce its impact on climate change and address concerns about its warehouse workers. Emily Cunningham, left, and Maren Costa outside Amazon’s Seattle headquarters four months before the company fired them last April.Credit...Jenny Riffle for The New York Times April 5, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET SEATTLE — Amazon illegally retaliated against two of its most prominent internal critics when it fired them last year, the National Labor Relations Board has determined. The employees, Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa, had publicly pushed the company to reduce its impact on climate change and address concerns about its warehouse workers.