San Francisco, United States.
Amazon illegally fired two of its employees last year for publicly criticizing the company, a retaliation that is not permitted by U.S. law, According to the U.S. National Labor Relations Board, an independent federal agency.
The New York Times, which contacted one of the two former workers affected, said Monday that the board, which is tasked with protecting rights of private sector workers, Has notified her and her partner that she will file charges against Amazon, If you do not offer them compensation.
“It’s a moral victory and it shows that we are on the right side of history and on the right side of the law,” he told the newspaper. Emily Cunningham, Who was fired in mid-April last year with her partner Maren Costa.
These two user experience designers post on Twitter on several occasions their discrepancies with the operation of the Seattle company (Washington State, USA), both in terms of environmental policies and occupational safety and security.
In particular, Cunningham and Costa they criticized the response Amazon was adopting to the covid-19 pandemic – at the time the first wave of the US was booming – and argued that it was not doing enough to ensure the safety and health of its employees, especially of distributors and warehouse workers.
The firm led by Jeff Bezos justified the layoffs because the workers had “violated corporate bylaws,” which prevented employees from speaking publicly about internal matters without the permission of their superiors.
This resolution comes just when the board conducts the scrutiny of the votes of an election among the employees of an Amazon warehouse in Alabama to decide whether to organize into a union, which would be the first of the company’s workers in the US