Amazon is offering employees thousands of dollars to permanently quit their jobs in a move which could impact its upcoming landmark union vote.
Amazon has relaunched its “voluntary resignation programme”, which it has been running annually every February since 2014, offering its staff a minimum of $1000 to quit and pursue other career avenues.
According to Motherboard, this programme could significantly disrupt an upcoming union vote at its warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, which could mark the first time in Amazon’s history US workers have gained official representation.
