Judge Orders Another Union Election At Amazon Warehouse In Alabama
Source: Huff Post
Nov 7, 2024, 12:06 PM EST
A judge at the federal labor board has ordered a do-over union election at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, finding that the online retail giant broke the law in ways that spoiled a vote by workers in 2022.
The new election would be the third one held at the facility — the previous vote itself was a do-over, after a labor board official set aside the results of the initial election, in 2021, due to Amazon’s allegedly illegal conduct.
In a decision issued Tuesday at the National Labor Relations Board, Administrative Law Judge Michael Silverstein ruled that Amazon illegally interrogated employees about the union, confiscated union materials from bathrooms and break rooms, surveilled pro-union employees and told them the warehouse would close if they organized.
Workers at the warehouse had voted 993 to 875 against joining the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union in the 2022 election, after voting 1,798 to 738 against joining the RWDSU in 2021. Silverstein dismissed most of the union’s allegations against Amazon, but ruled that the violations the company did commit during the second organizing campaign “prevented the holding of a fair election” and warranted tossing out the results.
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/amazon-third-union-election-bessemer_n_672cdffae4b01e5999fc6580
Link to DECISION (PDF viewer) - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1REB-JtVRqiPU0RbkU1SiQJv51HAMErxK/view?pli=1