Amazon fired him for union organizing—1.5 years later, he's still fighting to hold them accountable | Working People

Nov 22, 2023 · 45m 58s
Amazon fired him for union organizing—1.5 years later, he's still fighting to hold them accountable | Working People
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Back in August of 2022, https://therealnews.com/amazon-fires-another-organizer-to-stop-kentucky-facilities-unionizing, a picker at the Amazon warehouse in Campbellsville, Kentucky, and one of the lead organizers in an effort to unionize Amazon facilities in Kentucky....

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Back in August of 2022, we spoke with Matt Littrell, a picker at the Amazon warehouse in Campbellsville, Kentucky, and one of the lead organizers in an effort to unionize Amazon facilities in Kentucky. When we spoke with Matt, Amazon had just fired him in suspected retaliation for his organizing activities, citing "performance" issues. Since then, Matt has been dragged through a Kafka-esque legal process to hold Amazon, the second largest private employer in the US, accountable for violating workers' rights. In this episode of Working People, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez checks back in with Matt to discuss recent developments in that process, including reaching a settlement with Amazon, which the National Labor Relations Board is now challenging, leaving Matt in legal limbo.

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Post-Production: Jules Taylor

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