Amazon accused of firing an employee who led a strike over RTO (1)

Amazon.com Inc. illegally fired an employee at the e-commerce giant’s headquarters who helped organize a strike to protest the company’s back-to-work policy, according to a new labor commission complaint.

The agency announced Tuesday that the Seattle regional office of general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board accused Amazon of placing the employee under a “performance improvement plan” and then offering him severance pay in exchange for resigning from his job and waiving his right to sue. .

According to the NLRB, the employee helped organize a walkout of hundreds of workers at the company’s Seattle headquarters in protest…