Amazon CEO Andy Jassy violated federal labor law in comments he made to media outlets about unionization efforts at the company, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Wednesday.
NLRB Administrative Law Judge Brian Gee cited interviews Jassy gave in 2022 to CNBC's "Squawk Box," Bloomberg Television and at The New York Times' DealBook conference.
At the DealBook conference, Jassy said that without a union the workplace isn't "bureaucratic, it's not slow."
The NLRB filed the complaint against Amazon and Jassy in October 2022.
But the Amazon chief's other remarks that employees would be less empowered and "better off" without a union violated labor law, "because they went beyond merely commenting on the employee-employer relationship."
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Andy Jassy, Brian Gee, Jassy, Gee, Mary Kate Paradis, Paradis
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