Amazon Fires Labor Organizer at Major Kentucky Hub, Union Says

Amazon.com Inc. has fired a senior labor organizer in Kentucky for speaking out in anti-union meetings last month, according to the Amazon Labor Union.

The organizer, Griffin Ritze, was fired for “insubordination” after attending several invite-only meetings in December against his manager’s instructions, according a termination notice provided by the union Wednesday. Ritze was attempting push back against company-run information sessions designed to dissuade workers from joining the union, the ALU said.

Tuesday’s termination notice says he “failed to meet Amazon’s Standards of Conduct and behavioral expectations,” and that “your employment is terminated immediately.”

Amazon didn’t immediately respond to a ...