内容来源：https://www.geekwire.com/2026/amazon-employees-file-civil-rights-complaint-over-company-probe-into-data-center-testimony/

内容总结：

亚马逊三名工程师因支持数据中心监管作证遭公司调查，员工团体提起民权投诉

西雅图当地时间周四，一个名为“亚马逊员工争取气候正义”的员工团体代表三名工程师向西雅图市政府提交民权投诉，指控亚马逊公司因他们此前在市政厅作证支持数据中心监管而对其进行不当调查。

投诉援引西雅图一项禁止雇主因政治意识形态歧视员工的罕见法律。三名工程师——帕特里克·施洛瑟、达里乌斯·伊拉尼和利塞尔·维甘德——于6月3日在市政厅小组委员会上作证，支持对数据中心进行监管。他们每人发言时均明确指出，自己依法享有免于报复的言论保护。

投诉文件称，一周后，三人分别被亚马逊员工关系部门约谈，被告知公司已对他们展开纪律调查。伊拉尼在团体发布的声明中表示：“亚马逊公开确认我们有权自由发言，私下却反复盘问我，试图让我承认做错了什么，感觉就像犯了罪。”投诉指出，调查结果可能导致解雇。

亚马逊承认已展开内部调查，但给出了不同解释。公司发言人玛格丽特·卡拉汉表示，根据内部政策，员工若以公司代表身份公开发言，需事先履行特定程序。她称，调查重点在于确认工程师是否以“亚马逊人”而非普通公民身份发表证词。亚马逊否认威胁解雇三人，称相关表述是在回答直接提问时出现，被投诉方断章取义。卡拉汉强调：“我们相信必须一视同仁地执行政策，调查只是确认是否存在违规行为，后续是否采取行动取决于调查结果。我们绝不纵容报复行为。”

根据西雅图《公平就业条例》，西雅图民权办公室将对此投诉进行调查，判断是否有合理理由支持指控。可能的补救措施包括复职、补发工资及经济赔偿。此前，在包括该员工团体成员等50余人作证后，西雅图市议会于6月9日全票通过决议，对市内新建大型数据中心实施为期一年的紧急暂停令。

中文翻译：

一个员工团体周四代表三名工程师向西雅图市政府对亚马逊提起民权投诉，指控该公司因他们在西雅图市议会作证支持监管数据中心而错误地对他们进行调查。
这份由“亚马逊员工争取气候正义”（AECJ）提起的投诉援引了西雅图一项不常见的法律，该法律禁止雇主基于政治意识形态歧视员工。
亚马逊承认进行了调查，但对调查性质作出了不同解释，称其依据的是员工未经特定程序不得以公司代表身份公开发言的政策。一位发言人表示这是内部调查的重点，并指出员工可以以个人身份自由讨论工作条件。
三名工程师——帕特里克·施洛瑟、达里厄斯·伊拉尼和莉斯尔·维甘德——于6月3日在市议会小组委员会作证，支持对数据中心实施监管。他们在发言开始时均声明，自己受法律保护，不会因公开发声而遭到报复。
根据投诉（GeekWire已查阅副本），一周后，亚马逊员工关系团队分别约谈了他们三人，并告知他们正在接受纪律调查。
“在公开确认我们拥有言论自由权之后，亚马逊私下审问我，反复问同样的问题试图让我承认做错了什么，让我感觉自己犯了罪。”伊拉尼在该团体发布的一份声明中表示。
投诉称，三名工程师被告知调查可能导致解雇。
亚马逊否认曾威胁解雇他们或告知他们面临解雇风险，称相关说法是在回答直接提问时提及的，且被对方断章取义地曲解了事件经过。
在审阅证词后，“我们发现他们可能以亚马逊员工身份而非普通公民身份发言，”亚马逊发言人玛格丽特·卡拉汉在一份声明中表示，“我们认为必须一视同仁地执行政策，因此与对待其他任何人一样，我们正在调查是否存在违反政策的行为，并根据调查结果决定是否采取行动。”
她补充道：“值得注意的是，我们绝不容忍报复行为。”
根据该市的《公平就业实践条例》，西雅图民权办公室将对此投诉展开调查，并判定是否存在合理理由支持相关指控。补救措施可能包括复职、补发工资及经济赔偿。
在包括AECJ成员在内的50多人作证后，西雅图市议会全体成员于6月9日一致投票决定，对市内新建大型数据中心实施为期一年的紧急暂停令。

英文来源：

An employee group filed a civil rights complaint against Amazon with the City of Seattle on Thursday on behalf of three engineers who allege that the company is wrongly investigating them for testifying before the Seattle City Council in favor of regulating data centers.
The complaint, filed by Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ), invokes an unusual Seattle law that bars employers from discriminating against workers based on political ideology.
Amazon acknowledged the investigations but characterized them differently, citing its policy against employees speaking publicly as representatives of the company without first going through specific procedures. A spokesperson described this as the focus of the internal inquiry, noting that employees are free to discuss working conditions in their individual capacity.
The three engineers — Patrick Schloesser, Darius Irani, and Liesl Wigand — testified June 3 before city council subcommittees in support of regulating data centers. Each opened by noting they were legally protected from retaliation for speaking out.
A week later, Amazon’s Employee Relations team called them into separate meetings and told them they were under a disciplinary investigation, according to the complaint, a copy of which was reviewed by GeekWire.
“After publicly affirming our right to speak freely, Amazon privately interrogated me, asking me the same questions over and over to try to get me to admit to doing something wrong and made me feel like I committed a crime,” Irani said in a statement released by the group.
The complaint says the engineers were told the investigation could lead to termination.
Amazon denied that it threatened to fire the engineers or told them they were at risk of termination, saying the reference came up in response to a direct question and was taken out of context in AECJ’s characterization of what happened.
After reviewing the testimony, “it became clear that they may have been speaking in their capacity as Amazonians and not as private citizens,” said Amazon spokesperson Margaret Callahan in a statement. “We believe it’s important to apply our policies consistently so, just as we would with anyone else, we’re investigating whether there was a violation of our policies and may or may not take action based on what we find.”
She added, “It’s important to note that we don’t tolerate retaliatory behavior.”
Under the city’s Fair Employment Practices Ordinance, the Seattle Office for Civil Rights will investigate the complaint and determine whether there is reasonable cause to support the allegations. Remedies can include reinstatement, back pay, and financial damages.
Following testimony by more than 50 people, including members of AECJ, the full Seattle City Council voted unanimously on June 9 to impose a one-year emergency moratorium on new large data centers inside the city limits.