Nuked Amazon is facing a lawsuit in federal court from the National Labor Relations board. The watchdog has asked a judge to issue an injunction forcing Amazon to give Gerald Bryson his job back.
The section 10 (J) injunction is intended to temporarily make a situation right when the court case could take too long to fix the alleged issue. The petition argues that other employees may be afraid to speak out if Bryson is n’t reinstated. That’s especially relevant now, as workers at the jfk8 warehouse are voting on unionization starting next Friday, March 25th.
National director Kathy drew king emailed the verge to the verge. In a statement, the NLRB regional director said:’I’m not going to die’.
We are seeking an injunction in district court to immediately reinstate a worker that Amazon illegally fired for exercising his section 7 rights. Amazon will read a notice of employees’ rights under the National Labor Relations Act.
Amazon did n’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Amazon did not immediately respond. The request was not immediately received.
Despite his frustration, Bryson says he’s’fighting until the end’. Speaking about his struggles dealing with being out of work as a single father.
The Amazon labor union is leading unionization efforts at the jfk8 warehouse where Bryson used to work. The union is headed by Christian Smalls, another worker fired by Amazon.
Amazon says it fired Bryson after he got into a heated shouting match while attending a protest. The company says it was a clear case of bullying and intimidation.
Bryson says the company has a zero-tolerance policy for fights. If two employees are in a fight, its policy is to fire both of them.
The company faced heavy criticism from workers for how it handled the pandemic at jfk8 and similar facilities. The New York attorney general filed a lawsuit last year, alleging that the company did n’t protect its workers from covid.
The labor watchdog accused the company of’threatening, surveilling, and interrogating’ employees. The complaint alleged that security personnel at the warehouses confiscated union materials from organizers, the company called organizers’thugs’.
