The National Labor Relations Board is slated to start counting Amazon worker votes at the Bessemer, Alabama facility and the JFK8 facility, one of two Staten Island warehouses pushing to unionize, by 1 p.m. EST Thursday.
If either warehouse votes in favor of a union, it will mark a major milestone for the nation’s second-largest private employer, which has successfully avoided unions since it was founded in 1994.
In November, labor board officials ordered a redo after determining that Amazon unfairly influenced the first election last year. However, during that election, workers overwhelmingly rejected the union, voting 1,798 to 738. This time, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which is still driving the union campaign, is hoping for a different outcome despite the rough voter turnout.
The union drive in New York is being spearheaded by the independent group called Amazon Labor Union. That group is led by a former Amazon employee, Christian Smalls, who claims he was fired after organizing a walkout to protest working conditions at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic."This bus stop has been home to me for the past 11 months," Smalls tweeted Wednesday. "I’ve done all I’ve could of physically done to get to this point," Smalls wrote.
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