San Francisco, United States.
Amazon illegally fired two of its female employees last year for public criticism of the company, retaliation not permitted by United States lawaccording to the US National Labor Relations Board, an independent federal agency.
The New York Times newspaper, which contacted one of the two affected former workers, said on Monday that the council responsible for protecting the rights of private sector workers, has informed her and her partner that she will file a report Amazon, if you don’t compensate them.
“It’s a moral victory and shows that we are on the right side of history and on the right side of the law,” he told the paper. Emily Cunningham, who was fired along with her partner in mid-April last year Maren Costa
These two user experience designers have had their disagreements on Twitter on several occasions Seattle Company Run (Washington State, USA), both in terms of environmental policy and labor protection and safety.
Mostly, Cunningham and Costa They criticized Amazon’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic – at the time, the first wave was increasing in the US – and argued that it was not doing enough to ensure the safety and health of its employees, especially of deliverers and warehouse workers.
The firm led by Jeff Bezos justified the layoffs because the workers had “violated internal company regulations,” preventing employees from speaking publicly about internal matters without the consent of their superiors.
This decision comes at the time when the board votes between the votes of an election employees of an Amazon warehouse in Alabama to decide if they want to organize into a union, which would be the first of the company’s employees in the US.