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Listen • 3:28 Signs reading "vote" hang outside the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., in March as workers wrapped up their seven-week mail-in election on whether to unionize. Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama may get a second chance to vote on whether to form the companys first unionized warehouse in the United States. A federal labor official has found that Amazons anti-union tactics tainted this springs election sufficiently to scrap its results, according to the uni...

  A U.S. labour board official has recommended a rerun of a landmark Amazon.com Inc union election in Alabama where employees had voted overwhelmingly against making their warehouse the online retailers first to organize in the United States.   In the coming weeks, a regional director for the U.S. National Labor Relations Board will decide whether to order the rerun based on this recommendation, said an official on Monday with the board who asked not to be named.   The Retail, Wholesale...

Print A federal official has recommended overturning the results of a union election at an Amazon.com Inc. warehouse in Alabama, giving the retail union an opportunity to reverse its defeat, according to people familiar with the issue. After losing the election in April, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union appealed the outcome to the National Labor Relations Board, setting in motion a contentious hearing in May that was presided over by NLRB hearing officer Kerstin Myers. The union...

BBC News By James Clayton image sourceReuters An official examining a landmark Amazon union election in Bessemer, Alabama, has recommended a rerun. The officer, from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), had been looking into the legitimacy of Aprils vote. Amazon appeared to have stopped a union from forming, winning a vote on the issue by a margin of two to one. However the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) alleged that Amazon had illegally pressured its workers. The N...

New Vote Recommended In US Amazon Union Election 08/03/21 AT 12:16 AM A US labor official has recommended the results be nullified in a failed vote to unionize Amazon workers at an Alabama warehouse, the union in the effort said Monday, opening a possible path to a new election. The recommendation by a hearing officer is a key step in potentially overturning the April ballot, which aimed to create the first union at a US-based Amazon facility but which the union alleges was tainted by the compa...

Amazon warehouse workers reject union proposal, may vote again The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), had said Amazon illegally threatened staff with reduced benefits and compromised the elections integrity via a ballot collection box it secured outside the warehouse Amazon said it planned to appeal (Source: Reuters) Reuters Updated Aug 03, 2021, 7:57 AM IST A U.S. labor board official has recommended a rerun of a landmark Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) union election ...

+0.52 (+0.02%) The recommendation by the NLRB hearing officer is a critical step in a process that could lead to a new vote to supplant the results of the one held in April. The findings will be reviewed by a regional NLRB director overseeing the case, who could make a final decision in a matter of weeks. Both Amazon and the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union, which ran the unionization campaign in Bessemer, Ala., may file responses to the recommendation from Kerstin Meyers, the NLRB o...

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Alina Selyukh, Stephan Bisaha Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama may get a second chance to vote on whether to form the companys first unionized warehouse in the United States. A federal labor official has found that Amazons anti-union tactics tainted this springs election sufficiently to scrap its results, according to the union that sought to represent the workers. The official is recommending a do-over of the unionization vote, the union said in a release. Amazon is expected to challenge th...

© Getty The election at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) should be held again, a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) hearing officer recommended. The officer’s report concludes that the e-commerce giant interfered with the election by having a mailbox installed outside of the facility just after mail-in voting kicked off. “It is clear that the sole reason the Employer sought to have a mailbox installed was the possibility tha...