Dive Brief:

• Amazon repeatedly violated the National Labor Relations Act when supervisors and loss prevention personnel prohibited off-duty employees from engaging in union-organizing and other protected activity in warehouse parking lots in Chicago, St. Louis and New York state, an administrative law judge for the National Labor Relations Board held July 23.
• The incidents involved similar actions by Amazon’s agents, according to the ALJ’s findings in Amazon.com Services LLC and Duzinkas. For example, in one incident, two off-duty Amazon employees were in the parking lot of a Chicago-area warehouse handing out petitions seeking to raise Amazon’s base minimum wage. A loss prevention agent asked what they were doing and told them he would call the police if they didn’t leave. The police did arrive, and they left, according to the findings.
• In ruling against Amazon, the ALJ explained that NLRB has long held employers may not bar off-duty employees from outside nonworking areas, including parking lots. Amazon violated Section 8(a)1 of the NLRA when it tried to do this to keep off-duty employees from engaging in protected activity, the judge held. Amazon also violated Section 8(a)1 when it called the police to further bar protected activity, the ALJ said.

Dive Insight:

Section 8(a)1 of the NLRA prohibits employers from interfering with or restraining employees from exercising the statute’s core rights, spelled out in Section 7 of the act.

These core rights — considered “...

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