Amazon.com illegally called the police on employees, restricted discussions about organizing, and terminated an activist in the lead-up to a vote on unionization last year, U.S. labor board prosecutors alleged in a complaint.

In a Monday filing, a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board, accused the e-retailer of repeatedly violating federal law in the spring, summer and fall of 2022 at a warehouse outside Albany, New York. Amazon “has been interfering with, restraining, and coercing employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed” under federal law, the regional director wrote in the complaint, issued on behalf of the agency’s general counsel.

The company prohibited staff from discussing the union during their work time while allowing them to discuss other nonwork topics, according to the complaint, which also claims the company held “mandatory or effectively mandatory” anti-union meetings.

The company also promulgated a policy prohibiting employees from being on the property before or after their shifts in order to discourage union organizing, and enforced it selectively to target union activists, the complaint claims.

Last August, it says, the company terminated an employee because they supported the union and took part in collective action, and “to discourage employees from engaging in these activities.”

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