(New York) The leaders of an organization campaigning for the creation of a union in an Amazon warehouse in New York announced on Wednesday that they had reached an agreement with the company for the holding of a vote of the employees of the 25 to March 30.
Posted at 2:19 p.m.
Workers at the JFK8 warehouse in the Staten Island neighborhood will drop off their ballots in person, group leader Christian Smalls said on Twitter.
The campaign for the creation of a union on this site began last year.
After several adventures, the American agency responsible for labor law (NLRB) recognized at the end of January that they had collected enough signatures to request the organization of a ballot.
An Amazon spokeswoman said Wednesday that the company remains “skeptical” that the organization has collected enough signatures.
“But since the NLRB has decided that the election must take place, we want our employees to be able to make their voices heard as quickly as possible,” said Kelly Nantel, in a message sent to AFP.
“Our employees have always had the choice whether or not to join a union,” she added.
The e-commerce giant is facing several attempts to unionize.
A group of employees at a second warehouse on Staten Island in New York, called LDJ5, recently filed a case to hold a vote, with the NLRB still having to certify they have enough signatures.
A little further south, in Alabama, the employees of the Bessemer warehouse, for their part, have the opportunity to vote again after the failure of a first attempt last year.
The NLRB in effect found that Amazon had broken the rules in the first ballot and ordered a second election, by mail. The ballots were sent to employees in early February and the count is due to take place on March 28.