Staten Island Amazon workers vote to unionize, a first for company

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More than 8,300 eligible workers cast their ballots.

Amazon provides the list of eligible workers to the National Labor Relations Board, which oversees the process. Organizers say a high attrition rate may have shrunk that pool since the election was scheduled.

John Logan, director of labor and employment studies at San Francisco State University, said the early vote counts in New York have been “shocking.” Stuart Appelbaum, president of the RWDSU, said on Thursday that the union would be filing objections to how Amazon handled the election in Bessemer but declined to specify. He also took the opportunity to lash out at current labor laws, which he believes are rigged against unions and favor corporations.

The union landscape in Alabama is also starkly different from New York. Last year, union members accounted for 22.2% of wage and salary workers in New York, ranked only behind Hawaii, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s more than double the national average of 10.3%. In Alabama, it’s 5.9%.

 

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Well. I guess package theft will be reduced because our packages will be stuck on the docks instead. As employees will now have new union approved 'break' schedules. This this will make Prime a waste of money.

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