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BESSEMER, Ala. (PAI)—The battle over unionizing the big Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., continued as the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union announced last week that it would officially file labor law-breaking charges against the monster retailer and package firm, following RWDSU’s...
REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island have started a union drive. This follows a failed union drive at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. The Bessemer drive was tied to an existing union — the Staten Island workers want an independent union. Amazon has another union fight on its hands. A group of workers at the tech giant's warehouse in Staten Island, New York, announced Monday they were starting a union movement. It comes after a failed union vote at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. The Staten Island g...
Union accuses Amazon of illegally interfering with vote JOSEPH PISANI, AP Retail Writer April 19, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 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 retail union that failed to unionize Amazon workers at the Alabama warehouse wants the results to be thrown out, saying that the company illegally interfered with the voting process.The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union said in a filing that Amazon threatened workers with layoffs and even the closing of the w...
We'll soon meet in your inbox. Please wait... “I personally didn’t see the need for a union,” he said. “If I was being treated differently, I may have voted differently.” Brooks is one of almost 1,800 employees who handed Amazon a runaway victory in the company’s hardest-fought battle to keep unions out of its warehouses. The result — announced last week, with 738 workers voting to form a union — dealt a crushing blow to labor and Democrats when conditions appeared ripe for them to make advances. For some workers at the warehouse, like Brooks, the minimum wage of $15 an hour i...
Megan Varner/Getty Images Democratic Rep. Andy Levin co-sponsored the PRO Act, which would give workers more power on the job. The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act passed the House and faces steep odds in the Senate. Levin said supporting the bill would show companies are invested in workers and communities. One by one, officials from the National Labor Relations Board last week read out the results of thousands of ballots cast by Amazon employees in Bessemer, Alabama, in a historic vote over whether to unionize. Rep. Andy Levin, a Democrat from Michiga...