Amazon loses bid to scrap historic union win at Staten Island warehouse

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Amazon's efforts to undo the results of a historic union win at a Staten Island warehouse have fallen short, as a hearing officer for a federal labor board on Thursday rebuffed Amazon's objections to the election.

Amazon's efforts to undo the results of a historic union win at a Staten Island warehouse have fallen short, as a hearing officer for a federal labor board on Thursday rebuffed Amazon's objections to the election.Shortly after the spring vote, in which workers at the warehouse known as JFK decisively won a, creating the first unionized Amazon facility in the U.S., the company filed more than two dozen objections with the National Labor Relations Board.

On Thursday, Lisa Dunn, the agency officer who handled the company's case, concluded that Amazon's objections should be entirely overruled and the union be certified as a bargaining representative for the warehouse, a spokesperson for the NLRB wrote in an email. Thursday's win is a relief for the Amazon Labor Union, the grassroots group of former and current workers whose unexpected victory in April followed weeks of aggressive campaigning from both sides.

 

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Amazon is now closing many working complexes.. thanks democrats

It should be illegal for a company that size to not have a union. The balance of power a sole employee negotiating with it just so skewed and can never result in a fair deal for the employee

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