Amazon Wrong to Fire Worker, NLRB Judge Rules a Second Time (1)

Amazon.com Inc. illegally fired a worker who pushed the company to improve Covid-19 safety protocols at its Staten Island warehouse, a National Labor Relations Board judge held in a supplemental decision.

Gerald Bryson retained the protection of federal labor law under a Biden-era NLRB decision on legal protections for employee speech, Administrative Law Judge Benjamin Green ruled Monday. Amazon argued that Bryson was fired for verbally attacking a coworker during a protest, rather than for his organizing activities.

Although Green held in 2022 that the termination violated the National Labor Relations Act, the NLRB ordered the judge to reconsider the ...