I think the caller wanted them off Amazon property. And they got that in a sense, because apparently they were never on Amazon property.
If you think this was some kind of corporate intimidation, how many people would you guess were involved with the decision?
Why isn't Amazon hiring scary bike gangs with plausible deniability to come harass the organizers instead of cops who generally enforce the law?
Sorry. But I just can't see it. "We're a trillion dollar organization with hundreds of thousands of employees with global reach. Our preferred intimidation methods involve a bumpkin county sheriff who knows how to enforce the law"
Amazon has literally hired Pinkertons to surveil workers, and they have been accused of retaliatory firings, etc. There's no outlandish or fanciful conspiracy here. Amazon are publicly known to be vehemently anti-union, and executives do encourage local management teams to try to curb union activity as much as possible, and appear to have fired local management at another facility for failing to do so, so the existence of this imperative seems pretty solid: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/technology/amazon-fires-m...
What's likely to have happened is that a person in local management wanted to stop union solicitation, so they called the cops with little regard for whether it was actually legitimate or not, in the hope that the cops might at least recommend the organizer move their activity to a less "aggravating" (i.e., less effective) location.
If you think this was some kind of corporate intimidation, how many people would you guess were involved with the decision?
Why isn't Amazon hiring scary bike gangs with plausible deniability to come harass the organizers instead of cops who generally enforce the law?
Sorry. But I just can't see it. "We're a trillion dollar organization with hundreds of thousands of employees with global reach. Our preferred intimidation methods involve a bumpkin county sheriff who knows how to enforce the law"