Amazon has been ordered to re-do US national vote.
US labour authorities connected Monday ordered a caller ballot connected whether Amazon warehouse workers successful Alabama tin signifier a union, saying the online retail elephantine had violated rules during the ballot.
Organizers vying to signifier the archetypal national astatine the e-commerce colossus successful the United States had appealed aft employees voted overwhelmingly successful April against the effort.
No caller day was acceptable and Amazon declined to accidental successful an email to AFP whether it plans to entreaty the bid from a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) authoritative overseeing the matter.
"Today's determination confirms what we were saying each along—that Amazon's intimidation and interference prevented workers from having a just accidental successful whether they wanted a national successful their workplace," said Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.
Regional NLRB authoritative Lisa Henderson, successful her decision, cited objections from the organizers, specified arsenic Amazon creating the "impression that it was signaling the individuality of employees who voted."
Amazon, successful a statement, said workers astatine the tract had already rejected forming a union.
"It's disappointing that the NLRB has present decided that those votes shouldn't count. As a company, we don't deliberation unions are the champion reply for our employees," wrote Kelly Nantel, an Amazon spokesperson.
The ballot successful the tiny Alabama municipality of Bessemer was the absorption of overmuch attention, with the ballot pitting supporters of the unionized employees—artists, Democratic and Republican lawmakers and adjacent President Joe Biden—against Amazon, whose concern has flourished during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Amazon is presently facing a radical of workers successful a New York warehouse besides seeking to make a union.
The NLRB's determination besides comes astatine a clip erstwhile different large US company, the Starbucks java chain, is besides engaged successful a bitter conflict implicit unionization astatine 3 java shops successful the northeast United States.
Management has deployed important resources to person employees astatine these 3 locations to vote against forming a union. They person until December 8 to instrumentality their ballots.
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