Amazon settles with critics it fired

Amazon has settled a labor dispute with two outspoken ex-employees who say they were illegally fired last year for publicly criticizing the e-tailing giant’s working conditions and climate policies.

The National Labor Relations Board was set this week to hear the case brought by Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa — which the agency said had merit — when the parties reached a private settlement, an NLRB spokeswoman said.

Terms were not disclosed. But the local Washington state chapter of the United Food and Commercial Workers union that brought the case said it requires Amazon to “make a posting [nationwide] notifying tech and warehouse workers of the settlement notice and that they have the right under the law to express themselves in collective and concerted activity,” said a statement.

The settlement also requires Amazon to “document” its compliance with the posting notice and provide “evidence” of it directly with the UFCW, the union said in its statement.

Cunningham and Costa, designers at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters, said they were fired for blasting Amazon’s climate policies and treatment of warehouse workers during the pandemic. Amazon said the pair violated its “internal policies,” which required them to get approval to speak publicly about Amazon.

Amazon, in a statement to The Post, confirmed that “we have reached a mutual agreement that resolves the legal issues in this case and welcome the resolution of this matter.”

The NLRB settlement was approved by the regional director, the agency said.