Results in the Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse election remain too close to call and hinge on several hundred challenged ballots.
The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union on Thursday accused Amazon of illegally interfering in the union election at the company's Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse.
The union filed 21 objections to the National Labor Relations Board, alleging Amazon fired a pro-union employee and threatened to close the warehouse if workers voted in a union.illegally interfered in a recent union election at an Alabama warehouse, according to a statement on Thursday from the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union the union, which organized the campaign.
The complaint comes a week after the NLRB finished tallying ballots in a closely-watched election at Amazon's fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama. At the facility, known as BHM, union supporters , but 416 challenged ballots remain. Of the counted ballots, the anti-union side is only up by 118 votes.The RWDSU is taking advantage of momentum in the labor movement within Amazon and more broadly. Last week, workers at an Amazon warehouse on New York's Staten Islandto form Amazon's first U.S. union, though the company is expected to file objections in the coming days.
And in Bessemer, the margin has tightened since last year, when workers held an initial vote on whether to unionize. In that election, which was conducted via mail ballot, the
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