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ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Amazon Says Acting GC Can't Prosecute Unfair Labor Charge Law360 (March 3, 2021, 2:47 PM EST) -- Amazon told a National Labor Relations Board judge that the board's acting general counsel doesn't have authority to prosecute a case saying the company retaliated against an employee who raised group complaints about working conditions, joining other employers that have argued the prosecutor was unlawfully appointed. In an amended answer to an unfair labor practice complaint brought by a worker at a facility in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, Amazon.com Services LLC ar...

March 1, 2021 7:03 p.m. President Biden on Sunday night raised brows when he tweeted a video appearing to offer his full-throated support of the unionization effort by Amazon warehouse staffers in Alabama — going further than all recent past presidents, on both sides of the aisle. Currently, more than 5,800 workers at an Amazon facility in Bessemer, Alabama are amid a seven-week voting period to decide whether they would like to be represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. The e-commerce giant has actively worked to discourage its employees from ...

Monday, March 1, 2021 President Joe Biden summarily removed National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel (GC) Peter Robb from office on January 20, 2021, and removed Robb’s deputy, Alice Stock the following day. On January 25, 2021, the president named Peter Sung Ohr to be acting General Counsel. Ohr was the NLRB’s Chicago office Regional Director. Because President Biden subsequently nominated Jennifer Abruzzo to serve as GC, Ohr will continue to serve as acting GC presumably until the Senate acts upon the nomination. As the NLRB official tasked with prosecuting cases...

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President Biden hails Amazon workers pressing to unionize in Alabama in unusual sign of support Jay Greene, Eli Rosenberg © Jay Reeves/AP Tray Ragland, left, and Kim Hickerson of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union hold signs outside an Amazon facility Bessemer, Ala., where the union is trying to organize warehouse workers. SEATTLE — President Biden gave Amazon warehouse staff in Alabama fighting to join a union their biggest support yet, tweeting a video Sunday night, saying workers should be able to make their decision in the election without pressure fro...