Amazon Workers Will Get Another Shot at Unionizing – ryan

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Workers at an Amazon Fulfillment Center in Bessemer, Alabama, Will Get Another Chance to Vote on a Union. The National Labor Relations Board formally ORDERED A NEW ELECTION ON MONDAY, SETTING UP ANOTHER SHOWDOWN BETWEEN AMAZON AND THE RETAIL, WHOLESHE AND DEPARTMENT AFTER IT LOST AN ELECTION TO REPRESENT BESSSEMER THIS YEAR, A Resultinted Partly to Aggraresive Tattribies Amazon. Amazon Had Strongly Urged Workers to Reject a Union, Placing A Mailbox in a parking lot to collect balots. “TODAY’S DECISION CONFIRMS WHAT WE WERE SAYING ALL ALOND – THAT AMAZON’S INTIMIDATION AND INTERFERENCE PREVENTED FROM HAVING A FAIR SY IN WHERE THEY WANT A UNION IN THEIR WORKPlace – and as the regional director has Indicated. WORKERS DEERVE TO HAVE A VOICE AT WORK, WHICH CAN ONLY COME FROM A UNION, ”Stuart Appelbaum, The Union’s President, Said in a Statement.

An nlrb Hearing officer HAD Recommended in august the Labor Board Order Another Election. In this new decision, tweeted out by huffpost’s dave Jamieson, the Board Official Blasts Amazon. The Mailbox Gambit in Particular “Raised Several Election-Relay Issues,” The Decision Reads. “These Issues Include Solicitation, The Collection and Security of the Mail Ballots, Surveillance or the Impression of Surveillance, and the False Impression that the Employer – Not the Board – Controlled the Election.” Amazon, The Decision Goes on to State, “Essentially Argues that its Sincere and Good-Faith Intens In Increasing Voter Turnout Absolves of Any Appearans of Impropriety.” Instead, it is “patetently clear” from Amazon’s “Arguments and the Record that, but for the Board Election, the Employer Waled not have the postal service to install a mailbox the main entrance of it. unrelated to the election to justify it urgent need for the Mailbox. ”

That vindicates the union, which hadwed as much when it raises objections to the Mailbox and Amazon’s Other, vehement Attempts to convinks to reject a union. Amazon, Meanwhile, Insists it did nothing work. “Our Employees have always have had the choice of whether or not to join a union, and they overwhelmingly chose not to join the rwdsu earlier this year,” Spokesperson Kelly Nantel told The Washington Post. “IT’S DISAPPOINTING THAT THE NLRB HAS NOW DECIDE THAT THOSE VOTES SHOULDN’T COUNT.”

This is misleading Language from Amazon. The nlrb isn’t defranchingis Amazon workers; instead, it found that amazon had done so itself, by denying say an opportunity to freely evaloute unionization. The NLRB’s Decision Affirms the Rightness of the Union’s Position: Amazon Really Did Rig Matters Against the Union. That May Constrain Amazon Somewhat in Another Matchup with the Union. Yet Workers Reject Unionization by Such a Large Margin in March That The Union Still Faces a Difficult Path to Victory. American Labor LAW is Still Weak, and Amazon Still has the resources necessary to pull off a tough but legal anti-union crampaign. That may be enough to defect unionization for a second time in alabama.

Nevertheless, The Nlrb’s Decision to Order A Second Election in Bessemer does Send a message to employs: Thats Workers have rights, and Employers have legal obligations. Flout say, and there are consequences.