Workers at the LDJ5 Amazon sorting center voted 618-380 against unionization, according to a final NLRB tally.
ALU’s union drive at the JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island after the outcome of the initial Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union election at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. Smalls, who was fired from JFK8 in 2020 after organizing a walkout to protest the company’s lack of COVID-19 protections, toldat the time that an independent union would be more appealing to workers than RWDSU.
In the event of a loss at LDJ5, ALU is likely to file similar charges of illegal interference in order to seek a new election, says Office and Professional Employees International Union Senior Business Representative Seth Goldstein, who is a pro bono attorney representing ALU.
“There’s active union-busting going on…. [Amazon is] doing everything they can to try to coerce people to vote against their interests,” Goldstein toldlast week, ahead of today’s ballot count. “I think people have to realize that what Amazon is trying to do is analogous to January 6 — that they don’t care about how people voted. They didn’t get the desired results, so they’re going to try to throw it out,” he said, referring to the company’s attempt to overturn election results at JFK8.
Last week, as voting began in the LDJ5 union election, Goldstein says Amazon put in place a security checkpoint that employees have to pass through in order to reach ALU organizers’ tent outside the sorting facility, making it more difficult to gain access to organizers. The company also has also displayed a video looping anti-union messages near the entrance of the warehouse, he says.
Goldstein argues Attorney General James should be able to make a quick determination against the tech giant based on
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