"Amazon Told Workers Union Organizers Are ‘Thugs,’ Labor Board Investigation Finds," 27 Jan. 2022

Amazon representatives told workers at JFK8, its largest New York City warehouse, that an ongoing union drive would fail because union organizers were “thugs,” and said it would be “futile” to vote for a union because a union would “never happen here,” a National Labor Relations Board complaint obtained by Motherboard states. 

The complaint also outlines a series of significant remedies that would require Amazon to, for the first time, train its managers, supervisors, security guards, and union avoidance consultants on its workers’ rights to organize and form unions.

... [W]orkers filed a series of unfair labor practice charges with the NLRB in May and June [2021], the NLRB investigated those charges, and found merit that they occurred. The complaint in question will be the basis for an upcoming trial.

... “These allegations are false and we look forward to showing that through this process,” Kelly Nantel, an Amazon spokesperson, told Motherboard.

... “I want to praise the labor board for this landmark remedy,” said Seth Goldstein, a pro-bono attorney for the workers. “Amazon has never faced a requirement for a public reading. I think that will go a long way to help their challenges with respecting the National Labor Relations Act,” ... .