![]() In an aerial view from a drone, the Amazon fulfillment warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama during the unionization drive there earlier this year. ![]() ![]() The director also found that the company engaged in an extensive campaign of interrogating workers with respect to their support for the union “thereby interfering with their rights to an election free of coercion and interference.” The regional director found that actions by Amazon amounted to “flagrant disregard” of the rules for conducting a vote, and “made a free and fair election impossible.” Among the issues in the complaints was a mailbox at the entrance to the warehouse near signs that encouraged employees to cast ballots opposing the union. “Amazon workers deserve to have a voice at work, which can only come from a union.” “Today’s decision confirms what we were saying all along – that Amazon’s intimidation and interference prevented workers from having a fair say in whether they wanted a union in their workplace – and as the regional director has indicated, that is both unacceptable and illegal,” said Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, the union seeking to represent nearly 6,000 workers at the warehouse. The first vote, held in April, fell well short of the support the union needed to win the right to represent nearly 6,000 workers there. It follows an earlier recommendation from an NLRB hearing officer that there was enough misconduct by Amazon during the election to justify a new vote. The ruling by a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board was made public Monday. Workers at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, will have another chance to unionize after a federal labor official called for a new vote Monday. ![]()
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