A second Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, New York will vote on whether or not to type a union, reported CNBC. The end result of the vote, scheduled to start on April twenty fifth and final till May 2nd, will resolve whether or not workers on the LDJ5 facility be a part of the Amazon Labor Union, an unbiased, worker-led motion shaped final yr in Staten Island. Roughly a mile away, one other Staten Island Amazon warehouse (referred to as JFK8) is about to carry its personal union election subsequent week.
Both elections are the most recent growth in a battle with Amazon on one facet, unions and Amazon warehouse staff on the opposite facet, and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) serving because the referee. NLRB ordered a re-run of a union election held at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama after figuring out that the tech big illegally interfered within the vote. Votes for that election are scheduled to be counted on March twenty eighth.
Earlier this week, NLRB sued Amazon over the termination of Gerald Bryson, an worker of the JFK8 facility, who the company believes was fired in retaliation for his activism. According to a tweet by ALU, Bryson’s employment at Amazon seems to have been reinstated after a federal decide complied with NLRB’s request to challenge an injunction.
Staten Island staff have accused Amazon of union-busting and actively focusing on staff concerned within the union. Last month the NYPD arrested three labor organizers on the JFK8 facility — together with ALU president Chris Smalls — after an Amazon supervisor complained that they have been trespassing, reported The Daily Beast.