Amazon employees arrive with paperwork to unionize on the NLRB workplace in Brooklyn, New York, October 25, 2021.
Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters
Amazon will face a union election at one in every of its warehouses in upstate New York subsequent month, the corporate confirmed to CNBC.
Employees on the warehouse, which is situated within the city of Schodack, southeast of Albany, New York, will solid their ballots between Oct. 12 and 17, Amazon mentioned.
A body of workers on the facility, generally known as ALB1, final month filed a request for a union vote. They’re searching for to be represented by the Amazon Labor Union, a grassroots group of present and former staff that efficiently unionized one in every of Amazon’s Staten Island warehouses, generally known as JFK8.
The National Labor Relations Board in late August decided staff had met the necessities to carry a union election on the Albany warehouse. Unions are eligible to carry an election after they’ve collected signatures of assist from a minimum of 30% of employees.
Amazon spokesperson Paul Flaningan mentioned the corporate stays skeptical that there are sufficient “legitimate signatures” to maneuver ahead with an election, however that it helps staff’ proper “to have their voices heard, and we hope and expect this process allows for that.”
Union organizer Heather Goodall confirmed an election can be held on the facility subsequent month. Kayla Blado, a spokesperson for the NLRB, mentioned the election dates have not been finalized by the regional workplace but.
The Albany election will take a look at whether or not the ALU can replicate its victory on Staten Island. The ALU confronted an early setback in May when employees at a close-by facility rejected becoming a member of a union.
In latest months, the ALU has been locked in authorized disputes with Amazon over the outcomes of the JFK8 vote. Amazon has argued the outcomes needs to be thrown out, alleging the union and the NLRB engaged in misconduct that tainted the election course of.
Earlier this month, an NLRB official beneficial Amazon’s objections needs to be dismissed, and the outcomes needs to be upheld. Amazon has till Friday to enchantment the official’s suggestions.
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