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Trump's laughing
and laughing.
Amazon workers at the LDJ5 facility in Staten Island, New York,
have voted against organizing with the Amazon Labor Union at a
count of 618 nos to 380 yeses. The facility has around 1,600
workers in total and began its election last week.
It’s been a long road to the election at LDJ5. In October 2021,
the ALU petitioned the National Labor Relations Board (or NLRB)
to hold an election at four Staten Island facilities, including
the sorting center. However, to make sure it had a sufficient
showing of interest, the union refiled its petition to only
include the JFK8 facility. In February, the ALU filed a new
petition to hold an election for LDJ5, which was approved in
March. The ALU pulled off a historic victory the next month,
when workers at the JFK8 facility voted 2,654 to 2,131 in favor
of unionization.
The fight to unionize LDJ5 will likely not end here. At another
Amazon facility in Bessemer, Alabama, the Retail, Wholesale and
Department Store Union successfully lobbied the NLRB (which
oversees the votes) to hold another election, alleging that
Amazon had interfered. While the votes tallied in the redo
signaled a loss for the union, a high number of contested
ballots means that nothing is final yet. The RWDSU has already
submitted a complaint accusing Amazon of interfering in the
second Bessemer vote.
After the count finished, the ALU tweeted that it will continue
organizing “at this facility and beyond.” It does still have to
negotiate a contract with Amazon for the workers at JFK8, as
long as the results of the election aren’t reversed (Amazon has
submitted a complaint that the union and NLRB “suppressed and
influenced votes” at the facility). That process could take
months and will likely require support from the facility’s
workforce.
The ALU “will certainly contest the election,” according to a
statement from the group’s lawyer given to Vice. He continued to
say that Amazon “violated laboratory conditions in this election
with mandatory anti-union meetings,” a practice that the NLRB
has been seeking to end.
In a statement emailed to The Verge, Amazon spokesperson Kelly
Nantel said the company is “glad that [its] team at LDJ5 were
able to have their voices heard.”
https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/2/23053665/amazon-ldj5-union-
vote-results
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