Amazon lawyer gets defensive after leaked comments on protest leader

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David Zapolsky says his emotions clouded his judgment when he questioned the employee's intelligence. FMTNews Amazon DavidZapolsky

Amazon employees in Michigan protest the company’s failure to protect their health amid the coronavirus outbreak.

David Zapolsky, Amazon’s secretary and top lawyer, allegedly wrote that a worker who criticised Amazon’s warehouse operation during the coronavirus pandemic was “not smart, or articulate” and suggested Amazon might “make him the face of the entire union/organising movement”. Amazon said it fired employee Christian Smalls after he came to the Staten Island warehouse for a demonstration Monday in violation of his paid quarantine. Smalls was in contact with a diagnosed coronavirus patient, Amazon said.

The alleged comments by Zapolsky follow a contentious relationship Amazon has long had with unions that have wanted to organise its workforce.

 

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