Amazon sacks pair with ties to union

AMAZON has fired two employees with ties to the grassroots union that led the first successful US organising effort in the retail giant’s history.

The company confirmed it had fired Michal Cusick and Tristan Dutchin of the Amazon Labour Union on Staten Island, New York.

The firm claims the “cases are unrelated and unrelated to whether these individuals support any particular cause”.

Mr Cusick, who worked at a nearby Amazon warehouse to the one that voted to unionise last month, said he was fired due to Covid-related leave.

He said he had been informed that he was allowed to go on leave until April 29 but was later fired because the leave period extended only until April 26.

It was alleged Mr Dutchin, another organiser, had been fired because he failed to meet productivity goals.