News / US labour board gloves-off stance threatens Amazon e-commerce dominance

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Strengthened US labour law threatens to curtail Amazon’s union-busting tactics, potentially forcing the e-commerce giant to compete with unionised competitors FedEx, UPS and the USPS.

Last week, a new ruling by US federal entity the National Labour Relations Board (NLRB) streamlined the union-forming process by shifting the onus from employees to prove workers want a union, to employers to prove they do not.

The ruling also specifies that if a company commits illegal or unfair labour practices in the run-up to a ...