Overview
- A settlement announced Tuesday between Amazon and the National Labor Relations Board bars the company from using its Unpaid Time system to discipline workers for striking.
- Amazon will restore unpaid time it deducted from more than 100 employees who walked off the job.
- The agreement applies across 1,300 U.S. facilities and requires posted notices in break rooms explaining workers’ rights and the settlement terms.
- Unpaid Time is a pool of hours for last‑minute leave that functions as an attendance limit, and the NLRB previously found docking it for strikes unlawfully coercive.
- Amazon says it did not admit wrongdoing, while the Teamsters contend the nationwide remedy will fuel new organizing drives across the company’s warehouses and delivery hubs.