It’s the Amazon senior manager cabal which manages to coordinate better and have better information across the whole company compared to the Amazon executives. You have not heard of it?

I don't find that a strained narrative at all.

-- I once wrote a status report where I reported that I thought something would be a problem blocking my progress if it weren't resolved.

My manager's status report said that there might be a issue.

His managers report said everything was on track. --

If you don't think that the upper management got into hot water and then started paying a lot more attention to their on-site managers after the Union vote, you and I live in different worlds.

Yup. You need to make a lot of assumptions arrive at this strained conclusion. Why not apply Occam’s razor?