Amazon suspends at least 50 workers after fire protest

TL;DR

Derrick Palmer, the vice president of the Amazon Labor Union, said day-shift workers were sent home with pay due to the fire, which began late afternoon Monday.Amazon spokesperson Paul Flaningan said in a prepared statement that the company had asked all night shift employees to report to their shifts on Monday after the New York Fire Department certified the building as safe.Seth Goldstein, an attorney for the union, said the workers intend to file unfair labor practice charges against Amazon with the National Labor Relations Board.Amazon has filed over two dozen objections with the agency seeking to toss out the union’s April win.Meanwhile, warehouse workers at a separate facility near Albany, New York will be voting in their own union election next week."

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