Jassy told CNBC in April 2022 that if employees were to vote in a union, they may be less empowered in the workplace and things would become “much slower” and “more bureaucratic.” Similarly, in the Bloomberg interview, Jassy remarked, “if you see something on the line that you think could be better for your team or you or your customers, you can’t just go to your manager and say, ‘Let’s change it.’”<p>How can expressing an opinion be in violation of federal law?
So this decision hinges on construing his statement as a threat.<p>If anything makes the consortium trying to get rid of the NLRB look right, this is it.
What if the company had industry data that the statement is factual? That unionized employees are less empowered and companies that have unions do not yield the same ROI in their respective industry as their count parts?<p>Would it still break federal law if the statement is factual from data? I feel like then the argument can be made that in his capacity it is no longer an opinion or representation of the company, but a stated observation of the industry itself.