"Did you direct any regional staff to pursue a settlement with Amazon in Palmdale, California?"
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asked at US House committee hearing today (bloomberg.com/news/article...).
"Yes, that is my job," NLRB GC Crystal Carey answered.
Ilhan Omar pressed Crystal Carey on why she wound down a landmark case that could have held Amazon responsible for contract delivery drivers.
New Businessweek feature: A landmark case was unearthing new revelations about Amazon's intimate, intensive regulation of drivers it claims aren't its employees. Then Trump put Amazon's former lawyer in charge www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Based on 1000s of pages of records and 50+ interviews
The feds were pushing a landmark case about Amazon’s control of its contract drivers. Then the president put Amazon’s former lawyer in charge.