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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s comments on unions run afoul of labor laws, federal agency says

October 28, 2022

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The charges outlined in the NLRB complaint cite statements Jassy made during interviews with CNBC and Bloomberg.

In an April interview with CNBC, he said that if employees were represented by a union they would be less empowered in the workplace, that it would be more difficult for them to have direct relationships with management and that things would be done less quickly and more bureaucratically, according to the agency’s letter. And in his June interview with Bloomberg, he made similar comments and also stated that “employees are better off without a union,” per the letter.

Amazon characterizes those remarks as benign.

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