Comment by dwater

Like unions or not, the contracts they have were arrived at over decades of negotiations between companies and employees. So while many will bemoan that unions make it impossible to fire bad employees, the purpose of those provisions is to make sure that companies aren't firing workers without cause, or because of the companies' own fault, as appears to be the case here. Amazon may have stopped most of its employee unionization efforts so far, but this automated firing system looks ripe for an expensive class action lawsuit to me, and it almost certainly wouldn't have happened if these employees had the bargaining power of a group.