'People should be outraged that Amazon feels that the law doesn't apply to them,' said a lawyer for the Amazon Labor Union.
As the union prepared to vote last year, said Christian Smalls, a co-founder of the ALU and former Amazon employee, on Wednesday, "we were allowed to organize in the break room, feed the workers, feed our colleagues, let them know that we're building a culture that's here to represent the workers."
"Unfortunately, after our victory Amazon rolled a policy out that allowed no access to the building, meaning workers cannot report before or afterwards unless they're scheduled for shifts," he added. "We weren't allowed to organize because they were targeting us, retaliating, firing, writing people up."The new policy, introduced last summer, barred workers from being in the building 15 minutes before or after their scheduled shift.
The company has claimed that it instituted the off-duty access rule only as a security measure and applied the rule fairly. "The employer violated the [National Labor Relations] Act in implementing its off-duty access rule at the end of June in response to union activity," the NLRB in a letter to the ALU. "The off-duty access rule has further been applied discriminatorily as relates to the disciplines pursuant to the rule which have been issued for union activity.
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