The National Labor Relations Board hearing, in which Amazon is set to to present its objections to the Amazon Labor Union’s election victory, is currently scheduled for Monday.
On Tuesday, Amazon’s lawyers filed a motion to close the hearing, according to a filing provided by ALU attorney Seth Goldstein to The Washington Post.
NLRB hearings are typically held in person and open to the public. But Amazon argues in its motion that, because the hearing is being held on Zoom, it makes it difficult to know if witnesses who aren’t supposed to be able to observe the proceedings are in attendance, or if the hearing is being recorded and shared with those witnesses.
“There is no practical way in which the Hearing Officer can effectively police who will be viewing the hearing via the publicly available Zoom invitation — including potential witnesses,” the filing says. “Nor can she control or even know whether unauthorized attendees are photographing or recording the proceedings on personal electronic devices and making those available to others — including potential witnesses.
Amazon declined to comment and did not immediately respond to questions about whether members of the media would be permitted to attend the hearing if the company’s motion is granted.The motion, which requests that the general public be barred from attending, specifies the parties that Amazon say should be allowed to attend the full proceeding, including witnesses and legal teams, but does not explicitly mention members of the media.
“I’ve never heard of this happening before. This is fantasy,” Goldstein, the lawyer representing the union, told The Post. “It again shows that Amazon is out of touch with the importance of transparency, so that everybody understands what is happening.”In May, independent labor organization Amazon Labor Union won a historic union election at JFK8, an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island.
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