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April 20, 2021

Amazon Hit with 23 Unfair Labor Practices Complaints over Union-Busting Campaign in Alabama
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In Alabama, the labor union that failed in its months-long battle to
organize an Amazon warehouse in the city of Bessemer has filed 23
complaints against the online retailer with the National Labor Relations
Board. The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union says Amazon
unlawfully interfered with union efforts by threatening to cut workers'
pay, benefits and time off work, while creating an "impression of
surveillance" by installing private mailboxes at the warehouse so it
could monitor workers' votes. This is Bessemer Amazon worker Jennifer
Bates.

Jennifer Bates: "There was illegal things taking place and fear tactics
that was done to people who didn't have any idea about what a union
could do for them, young people who thought that they were going to lose
their job because the company said, 'We're going to shut down.'"



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