Amazon Workers in New Jersey Facility File for Union Election

Amazon staff at a small facility in New Jersey have proven sufficient curiosity to carry a vote on unionizing, the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) mentioned on Monday.

At least 60 of 200 staff from Amazon’s DNK5 depot in Bayonne, New Jersey, have submitted playing cards searching for to prepare as a part of Local 713 International Brotherhood of the Trade Union, the NLRB mentioned.

The information follows rising curiosity in organizing at Amazon, which for years had resisted unions in its US operations.

Just final month, hundreds of workers on the JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island voted to prepare underneath a special group generally known as the Amazon Labor Union, and staff at a second Staten Island warehouse are weighing later this month whether or not to unionize.

An election date and phrases have but to be agreed upon for the supply station DNK5. Amazon might dispute the validity of this newest petition.

The firm didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

Earlier this month, Amazon mentioned it might file objections to a union election held in New York. The firm alleged that some staff of the New York warehouse had been threatening others until they voted to kind a union. Several different cities with Amazon warehouses are additionally forming unions and organising elections. According to a current report Amazon staff sustained greater than half of the recorded US warehouse accidents within the US in 2021.

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