Amazon workers get there with paperwork to unionize at the NLRB workplace in Brooklyn, New York, Oct 25, 2021.
Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters
Amazon will face a union election at just one of its warehouses in upstate New York next thirty day period, the business confirmed to CNBC.
Staff at the warehouse, which is situated in the city of Schodack, southeast of Albany, New York, will solid their ballots in between Oct. 12 and 17, Amazon said.
A group of staff at the facility, identified as ALB1, previous month submitted a ask for for a union vote. They’re trying to get to be represented by the Amazon Labor Union, a grassroots group of present-day and former workforce that successfully unionized just one of Amazon’s Staten Island warehouses, recognized as JFK8.
The National Labor Relations Board in late August decided workforce experienced fulfilled the needs to hold a union election at the Albany warehouse. Unions are qualified to hold an election following they’ve collected signatures of guidance from at minimum 30% of personnel.
Amazon spokesperson Paul Flaningan reported the corporation remains skeptical that there are ample “legit signatures” to transfer ahead with an election, but that it supports employees’ proper “to have their voices read, and we hope and hope this process lets for that.”
NLRB spokesperson Kayla Blado and union organizer Heather Goodall confirmed an election would be held at the facility future thirty day period.
The election will be held in a tent outdoors the facility, Blado said. The NLRB will start counting votes on Oct. 18.
The Albany election will check regardless of whether the ALU can replicate its victory on Staten Island. The ALU faced an early setback in Might when staff at a nearby facility turned down signing up for a union.
In the latest months, the ALU has been locked in lawful disputes with Amazon above the outcomes of the JFK8 vote. Amazon has argued the results ought to be thrown out, alleging the union and the NLRB engaged in misconduct that tainted the election course of action.
Before this thirty day period, an NLRB formal proposed Amazon’s objections must be dismissed, and the success should really be upheld. Amazon has until finally Friday to attractiveness the official’s recommendations.
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