Amazon paid more than $4M to labor consultants in 2021 as unionization efforts spread
Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) gave cash payments to five different labor consulting firms in 2021 as it responded to union organization efforts, according to a March 31 filing with the Department of Labor.
The disclosure from Amazon, detailing $4.26 million worth of payments last year, was filed a day before employees at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, New York, voted to unionize. It is the first Amazon warehouse to form a union but not the only one to try.
In Bessemer, Alabama, Amazon workers rejected a unionization vote last week for the second time. Bessemer workers first voted on unionization in April 2021. Last week's vote, however, was close enough to be challenged.
Warehouses at both Staten Island and Bessemer had been ramping up unionization efforts during the Covid-19 pandemic in response to working conditions.
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