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Aug. 22, 2023, 1:22 AM

Amazon Illegally Called Police on NY Workers, NLRB Alleges (1)

Josh Eidelson
Josh Eidelson
Bloomberg News

Amazon.com Inc. illegally called the police on employees, restricted discussions about organizing, and terminated an activist in the lead-up to a vote on unionization last year, US labor board prosecutors alleged in a complaint.

In a Monday filing, a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board, accused the e-retailer of repeatedly violating federal law in the spring, summer and fall of 2022 at a warehouse located outside Albany, New York. Amazon “has been interfering with, restraining, and coercing employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed” under federal law, the regional director wrote in the complaint, issued on ...

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