Amazon denounces the vote in favor of unionizing a warehouse in the US

amazon filed a complaint against the formation of the first union by the workers of a warehouse of the technology giant in the New York district of Staten Island and has requested its repetition, local media reported and the company confirmed to Efe.

According to the company, union leaders pressured workers to vote in favor of forming a union, an argument that the lawyer for the so-called Labor Union of amazon (ALU, for its acronym in English), Eric Milner, described as “absurd”according to the CBS channel.

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On April 1, employees of the JFK8 plant in amazon in New York they won a fight against the technology giant and after months of struggle they managed to create the first union in USA of the company, which has tried by all means to frustrate any initiative of union organization.

In total, 2,654 staff members were in favor of organizing, compared to 2,131 who were against in the vote.

“amazon has chosen to ignore this and engage in delaying tactics to avoid the inevitable: sitting down at the negotiating table and negotiating a contract.” Milner added.

According to the spokeswoman for amazon Kelly Nantel, in a statement sent to Efe, the company has always insisted that the voices of its employees be heard: “But that hasn’t happened, because less than a third of facility employees voted for the union, and overall turnout was unusually low.”

“Based on the evidence we have seen thus far and as set forth in our objections, we believe that the actions of the National Labor Relations Board (in charge of organizing the vote) and the ALU suppressed and improperly influenced the vote,” he added.

The spokeswoman also insisted that the company defends a repetition of the vote “so that it is fair and there can be a broadly representative vote.”

amazon It is the second largest employer in USAonly behind the Walmart supermarket chain, and since the start of the pandemic it has skyrocketed both its activity and its profits and has hired tens of thousands of new workers.

The outbreak of the pandemic in 2020 spurred on USA the encouragement of numerous workers at Amazon and other large companies in the country, such as the Starbucks coffee chain, who denounced that their employers did not take the necessary measures to protect them from covid-19.

Source: Elcomercio

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