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Amazon CEO violated labor laws with union remarks, federal agency alleges

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45 pointsmfiguiere9 comments

And the NLRB punishment will amount to $1000 ?

That govt org has NO teeth. They should be able to bite a billion or 2 for gross violations, and disburse it to EVERY non-management employee and contractor in affiliation with Amazon.

But instead, it's a cost of doing business, and anti-union tactics lives on.

They'd just end up raising prices for the customers.

We should be thankful for its toothlessness. The laws are blatant violations of private property and contracting rights, and don't belong in a free society.

Oh look, another exploited proletariat seeing themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

I'm not exploited and I don't see the world in zero sum terms, because success is not zero sum.

I'm not clear from the article which part of the comments were illegal?

You aren't allowed to say that unions make work more bureaucratic?

>The Amazon Labor Union, which filed an unfair-labor-practice charge with the NLRB over Jassy’s comments

Hm, it seems nothing has been debated so we don't know if and what's wrong specifically.

In another article:

>To resolve the complaint, Amazon can settle with the union or take the case before an administrative law judge in February.

Right. I speculate the employer is coercing, in this case. The words were not clearly an opinion.

The complaint:

> "interfering with, restraining, and coercing employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed” in the National Labor Relations Act

The law:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/29/158

My take:

The fact the CEO said that bad things MAY come if employees joined a Union, suggests to me "bad things" is the planned action by Amazon.

References:

- Best practices for EMPLOYERS (See "T" for Threats): https://agworkforce.cals.cornell.edu/2019/10/23/what-employe...

If only an automation existed to smooth over the bureaucracy.

Amazon CEO is shipping sound bites that make him sound like a victim. Poor aristocrat; he’ll have to wave his wrist and get the workers to automate the task.

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