Amazon Is Refusing to Comply with a Federal Judge’s Order, Emails Show | The company seems resistant to tell its employees that it was ordered by a federal judge to stop firing people for unionizing, according to a new filing by the NLRB.

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The federal cease-and-desist order required that Amazon stop “discharging employees because they engaged in protected concerted activity” and “interfering with, restraining, or coercing employees.”It also mandated that Amazon post the order “where [Amazon] customarily posts notices to its employees” in the Staten Island JFK8 warehouse, where the Amazon Labor Union won its first election—and that management hold a mandatory-attendance public reading of the full court order “scheduled to ensure the widest possible employee attendance.”However, emails contained within the new NLRB motion filed Tuesday show that Amazon’s legal team has repeatedly refused to abide by those requirements.“I think it shows that Amazon is not complying with what the judge told them to do,” said Seth Goldstein, a lawyer for the Amazon Labor Union.“This is Amazon trying to get out of what they have to do.”The NLRB official, in their emails, also demanded that Amazon schedule the public reading of the order to some time mid-shift, to ensure that the most employees possible would be there to attend.Amazon often hosts mandatory “all-hands” meetings mid-shift to ensure maximum attendance, according to testimony from Derrick Palmer, a long-time JFK8 worker and vice-president of the Amazon Labor Union.Rather than subject a live reader to a ‘heckler’s veto’ (or worse), Amazon can continue to play a recording without potential interruption.”The NLRB filing alleges that Amazon’s actions “make a mockery” of the judge’s order, and that they are “propped up by flimsy, transparently false justifications.”An Amazon spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment."

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