Amazon employees at second New York location transfer to unionize | Engadget

Workers at LDJ5, an Amazon warehouse facility on New York’s Staten Island, have filed a petition to unionize with the National Labor Relations Board. It’s the second facility Staten Island to make an try at forming a union after JFK8, and it is also in search of to be represented by the Amazon Labor Union, an unbiased group comprised of present and former firm staff. According to CNBC, the ALU filed the petition on Wednesday. 

The ALU initially filed to kind a union final 12 months for JFK8 and three different close by amenities, however it needed to withdraw its petition after it failed to collect sufficient votes to proceed. It refiled its software in December, nonetheless, and targeted solely on JFK8. Former Amazon worker and ALU chief Christian Smalls said again then that the group was “taking a different approach” and hoping that it has “more than enough” assist from staff within the facility. Smalls led a walkout at JFK8 over the e-commerce big’s dealing with of COVID security on the warehouse. Amazon mentioned he was fired after “multiple warnings for violating social distancing guidelines.”

In late January, the ALU collected sufficient signatures to proceed with a union election vote at JFK8, a feat the e-commerce big doubts. Reaching the brink means the ALU was in a position to safe the assist of 30 p.c of the warehouse’s workforce. Amazon advised Engadget in a press release when the information broke that it is “skeptical that there are a sufficient number of legitimate signatures” and that it is “seeking to understand how these signatures were verified.” An election has been set for JFK8 on February sixteenth. As for LDJ5, the ALU nonetheless should acquire sufficient signatures from its 1,500 employees for an election to have the ability to proceed.