The National Labor Relations Board filed a complaint on Wednesday alleging that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy violated labor law in two interviews he gave this year where he discussed his stance on unions at the e-commerce giant.
The comments were made shortly after workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island voted to unionize in April with the Amazon Labor Union, the first warehouse of the e-commerce giant to do so. This year, the NLRB has repeatedly found Amazon to have violated workers’ rights during a handful of unionization campaigns.
Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Amazon has repeatedly defended its actions and has said that it believes a direct relationship with employees is better for workers.
On April 14, Jassy told Andrew Ross Sorkin of CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that employees who were represented by a union would be less empowered in the workplace, making it more difficult for them to have direct relationships with management and making things “much slower” and “much more bureaucratic.”
In a separate interview June 8, Jassy said during the Bloomberg Tech Summit that employees were better off without a union. He also made similar comments about unions making it more difficult for employees to have direct relationships with their managers and to get things done quickly.
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