Rep. Valerie Foushee (D-N.C.) speaks to voters at the historic Chatham County Courthouse on April 22, 2025, in Pittsboro, North Carolina. (Photo: Brandon Kingdollar/NC Newsline)
Rep. Valerie Foushee (D-N.C.) urged Amazon leaders to provide an open town hall, free from retaliation, for workers who wish to unionize at three facilities in the area, becoming the top elected official to back the North Carolina union campaign to date.
Since it launched out of an Amazon warehouse in Garner in 2022, the union campaign, known as Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment, has filed more than a dozen unfair labor practice complaints. Key supporters of the union, including co-founder Rev. Ryan Brown, say they were terminated by Amazon in retaliation for their roles in the campaign.
“I know that many workers at all three facilities support unionization and are members of CAUSE,” Foushee wrote in a letter to local Amazon leadership on Friday. “A refusal to allow an open forum for the free airing of competing viewpoints on unionization raises serious concerns about transparency, accountability, and respect for the local workforce.”…