Amazon Ordered to Cease and Desist Retaliating Against Activists

Amazon.com Inc. must cease and desist from retaliating against employees for workplace activism, a New York federal judge ordered Friday.

The ruling requires Amazon to distribute the order to employees at a Staten Island warehouse and to read it to them at a meeting, but US district judge Diane Gujarati denied a request for an injunction to reinstate a fired activist made by the National Labor Relations Board.

The mixed ruling by the Eastern District of New York comes nearly two years after the NLRB hit Amazon with an unfair labor practice complaint for firing Gerald Bryson in the early ...