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NEW YORK (AP) — Tyson Foods is offering its front-line workers paid sick leave for the first time, part of an agreement that secured union support for its mandate that all U.S. employees get vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus. The meatpacking giant said 90,000 — or 75% — of its 120,000 U.S. workers have now […]

This unprecedented and rapidly-expanding worker-based solidarity has the potential to help end Israeli apartheid.

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After months of avoiding the vaccine issue, companies begin to mandate We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Michael Corkery, Lauren Hirsch, Brooks Barnes and Kellen Browning August 4, 2021 — 1.00pm Normal text size Advertisement Some of America’s largest employers, for months reluctant to wade into the fraught issue of whether COVID-19 vaccinations should be mandatory for workers, have in recent days been compelled to act as infections hav...

Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images This story is part of a group of stories called Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. The union drive in Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama, fulfillment center that ended with a majority of workers voting against unionizing may well get a second chance. A National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) official is now calling for a reelection, citing Amazon’s misconduct in the first one. But it’s still not a sure thi...

ADVERTISEMENT Amazon union-vote rerun advised Labor hearing officer said to favor new election in Alabama by Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports | Today at 2:15 a.m. FILE - In this March 30, 2021 file photo, a banner encouraging workers to vote in labor balloting is shown at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala. The union that tried, and failed, to organize Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, says it may get a do-over. The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union on Monday, ...

National Labor Relations Board calls for union revote at Alabama Amazon facility A National Labor Relations Board hearing officer has determined that Amazon substantially interfered in the carrying out of a unionization drive at its BHM1 fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, earlier this year. According to statements released by both Amazon and the plaintiff Retail, Warehouse and Department Store Union, the federal labor board has recommended a revote. Last spring, the RWDSU’s campaign to...

The result of the vote on the formation of the first American trade union at Amazon may be declared invalid. The e-commerce giant allegedly pressured its employees to vote against it.   Historic vote In April, warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, were given the opportunity to vote on the formation of the first-ever Amazon employee union in the United States. The issue received a significant amount of press attention worldwide. In the end, a large majority voted against the creation of a un...

Labor Board Official Backs Union Challenge on Amazon Vote A hearing officer for the National Labor Relations Board found that Amazon illegally discouraged organizing at an Alabama warehouse. The company can appeal to block a new election. The vice president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union outside of the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., in March. The union complained frequently that Amazon was intimidating and threatening workers.Credit...Bob Miller for The New York Times ...

Amazon union election results should be set aside due to misconduct, NLRB officer recommends Amazon union election results should be set aside due to misconduct, NLRB officer recommends Posted: Aug 2, 2021 9:31 PM Updated: Aug 2, 2021 9:31 PM Posted By: By Sara Ashley OBrien, CNN Business A National Labor Relations Board official is recommending that the results of the milestone union election at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama held earlier this year be scrapped and that a new election be held...