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The National Labor Relations Board has confirmed that a radical of Amazon workers successful Staten Island, New York has withdrawn its petition to clasp a ballot to unionize.
The determination comes little than 2 weeks earlier the labour committee was expected to clasp a proceeding to find whether determination was capable involvement to signifier a union astatine the Amazon organisation center.
NLRB spokesperson Kayla Blado declined to elaborate the crushed for the pullback. But she noted workers tin refile a petition.
Union organizers had said successful precocious October that it delivered much than 2,000 signed union-support cards to the NLRB's Brooklyn bureau aft launching the effort successful April. That's a large measurement successful authorizing a ballot that could acceptable up the archetypal national astatine the nation's largest online retailer.
As portion of its petition to clasp a vote, organizers indispensable taxable signatures from astatine slightest 30% of the astir 5,500 employees who the national says enactment astatine 4 adjoining Amazon facilities that it seeks to correspond nether collective bargaining.
This is the 2nd unionizing effort successful the past twelvemonth astatine Amazon. Workers successful Alabama resoundingly defeated an effort earlier this year, but organizers determination are asking national officials for a do-over. The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union is starring the effort successful Alabama.
The national thrust successful New York City is moving without the assistance of a nationalist sponsor and is being spearheaded by a erstwhile Amazon employee, Christian Smalls. He said helium was fired conscionable hours aft helium organized a walkout past twelvemonth to protestation moving conditions astatine the outset of the pandemic. Smalls couldn't beryllium reached instantly for comment.
Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel said successful an e-mailed connection that "our absorption remains connected listening straight to our employees and continuously improving connected their behalf."
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