Amazon Illegally Cut Hours, Threatened Workers, NLRB Judge Says

Amazon, LLC must give a New York employee back-pay after it sent him home from shifts early due to his unionizing activity and committed a slew of other labor law violations during organizing campaigns in 2021 and 2022, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled.

NLRB Administrative Law Judge Lauren Esposito held in a Tuesday ruling that Amazon illegally interrogated and threatened workers, confiscated union literature, and dismissed an organizer from his shift.

Esposito found in her 84-page decision that the retail giant broke federal labor law nearly two dozen times in 2021 and 2022 at two warehouses in Staten ...