A survey found that nearly two-thirds of local residents support a union at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama.
of misconduct against Amazon with the National Labor Relations Board , which previously ruled that the company violated the labor rights of its employees at the Bessemer warehouse in Alabama last year.
“Removing union literature from break rooms, limiting workers’ ability to talk with each other, compelling attendance at captive audience meetings to listen to anti-union messages — all of these actions expose Amazon’s undisguised efforts to stifle workers’ voices and its contempt for their rights to join together,” said Wilma Liebman, a former chairperson for the NLRB, in a statement provided by RWDSU.
“Being forced to attend the captive-audience anti-union trainings was degrading,” Wyatt said in a statement released by RWDSU. “Amazon treated us like mindless robots, downloading misinformation to us. And the irony is, these meetings are the longest I’ve ever gotten to sit at work.”, an Amazon spokeswoman said the company is confident that it has not broken labor laws. “Our focus remains on working directly with our team to make Amazon a great place to work,” the company said.
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