Amazon Interfered in Canadian Union Efforts, Labor Board Rules

(Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc. mounted a “lengthy and pervasive anti-union campaign” at a warehouse in western Canada and hired an excessive number of workers to dilute support for a union, according to a Canadian labor board.

The British Columbia Labour Relations Board found that Amazon Canada Fulfillment Services ULC violated provincial labor laws by interfering in organization efforts at a facility in Delta, south of Vancouver. The board green-lit the union on Friday through remedial certification — a move reserved for situations where an employer’s actions make a fair vote unlikely.