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The US Federal Agency for Labor Law is formal.

Amazon's dismissals of two computer designers were indeed retaliatory measures after the two employees criticized the group.

The agency thus confirmed on Monday that it would file a complaint against Amazon for breach of labor law, if the company does not regularize the case concerning Maren Costa and Emily Cunningham.

These two women had been dismissed a year earlier, officially for "repeated breaches of internal regulations".

NLRB confirmed what we've known since last year: @Amazon illegally fired our brave coworkers @emahlee and @marencosta for speaking out about major gaps in Amazon's climate and worker record.

https://t.co/baaTenPceO

- Amazon Employees For Climate Justice (@AMZNforClimate) April 5, 2021

Fired for criticizing Amazon's methods?

Leaders of the AECJ collective (Amazon Employees for Climate Justice), they would have been "fired for sounding the alarm on the climate and Covid-19", according to Emily Cunningham.

Maren Costa's Twitter profile says they were fired at Easter 2020 for "fighting for the safety of our colleagues in the days of Covid."

"We support the right of all our employees to criticize the working conditions of their employer," responded an Amazon spokesperson.

“But that does not mean complete immunity from our internal regulations, which are legal.

We did not thank these employees for speaking out about safety or sustainability.

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Several employees called for a strike on April 24 to protest, demand environmental measures and better working conditions for warehouse workers.

"We are fed up with all this, layoffs, attempts to silence us, pollution, racism and climate change," said Maren Costa.

Soon a union at Amazon?

Amazon, with 800,000 employees in the United States, is regularly criticized for its management of social and environmental responsibilities.

The coronavirus amplified the protest.

The group almost doubled its net profit to $ 21 billion in 2020 thanks to the explosion in demand during a pandemic.

At the same time, employees complain of hellish rates and risks of contamination.

A movement has taken shape to create a union in a warehouse in Alabama.

It would be a first for Amazon in the United States if successful.

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