We had frankly (albeit inadvertently) let this narrative arc fall off the radar-screen, in the prior four months. That was our bad. [Here is one of about of my 30 prior posts, on Amazon labor tactics, over the last eight or so years.]

But once again, it seems that Mr. Bezos’stock-in-trade is to skirt the law, at best — and abuse the rights of his labor forces, to organize collectively — at worst. Here’s the latest, from the NLRB.Edge blog:

…The Board [of the NLRB] has affirmed an administrative law judge’s findings that Amazon committed a series of violations of the NLRA during the Amazon Labor Union’s 2021 organizing campaign at the JFK8 fulfillment center on Staten Island, while dismissing one allegation involving the discharge of an employee at a nearby delivery station.

The Board upheld findings that contracted security guards acted as Amazon’s agents when they told an employee he needed permission to distribute union literature, confiscated the literature, and photographed his badge to report him to human resources.

In a separate incident about a week later, another security guard created the impression that employees’ union activities were under surveillance by pointing a phone at organizers and workers during a union event. The Board also affirmed that Amazon violated the law in June 2021 when a manager and a human resources employee separately told employees they could not hand out union literature on their own time in nonwork areas and confiscated the literature, and when another human resources employee did the same later that day….

Now you know — with close-up cabaret magic shows — like the 1920s (post-war) in the Loop, on tap, for tomorrow night. Grin….

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