Amazon Fires Senior Managers Connected to Unionized Warehouse -New York Times
May 06 2022 - 03:26PM
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--Amazon.com Inc. informed more than half a dozen senior
managers involved with the Staten Island warehouse that they were
being fired, the New York Times reported Friday, citing four people
familiar with the matter.
--The firings were seen by the managers and other people who
work at the facility as a response to Amazon Labor Union's victory
in establishing the company's first union in the U.S., the report
said, adding that the firings occurred outside of the company's
typical employee-review cycle.
--Many of the managers had been responsible for implementing the
company's response to the unionization effort that was taking
place, the New York Times reported.
--An Amazon spokeswoman said the company made the management
changes after it had spent several weeks evaluating aspects of the
"operations and leadership" at JFK8, which is the company's name
for the warehouse, the report said. "Part of our culture at Amazon
is to continually improve, and we believe it's important to take
time to review whether or not we're doing the best we could be for
our team," said Kelly Nantel, the spokeswoman, according to the
report.
Full story at
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/technology/amazon-fires-managers-union-staten-island.html?smid=url-share
Write to Denny Jacob at denny.jacob@wsj.com
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