Amazon illegally fired employees who spoke out about conditions, board finds
“We support every employee’s right to criticize their employer’s working conditions," said an Amazon spokesperson
Jaci Anderson said to
The New York Times. “We terminated these employees not for talking publicly about working conditions, safety or sustainability but, rather, for repeatedly violating internal policies.”
NLRB, an independent government agency responsible for enforcing labor laws, found that the employee’s claims had merit.
Emily Cunningham and
Maren Costa said they were fired for supporting individuals who protested against unsafe warehouse conditions due to COVID-19 and because they spoke against the company’s climate policies. They worked as designers at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters, per the