Amazon workers in upstate New York file for union election
Source: AP
By HALELUYA HADERO
NEW YORK (AP) Backed by the grassroots labor group that secured the first-ever union victory of an Amazon warehouse in the U.S., workers of another warehouse filed a petition on Tuesday for an election in upstate New York in the hopes of a similar outcome.
A spokesperson for the National Labor Relations Board said the petition was filed for the warehouse known as ALB1, located in the town of Schodack, roughly 10 miles (16 kilometers) southeast of Albany.
To qualify for a union election, the NLRB requires signatures from 30% of eligible voters at a specific facility. Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding how many employees it has at the Schodack location.
Heather Goodall, a warehouse worker and a former insurance agent whos leading the organizing effort, said in an interview earlier this month that workers had enough support to file for a union petition, but were choosing to delay in order to pick up even more signatures. On Tuesday, she said the groups attorneys were not ready to release information on the number of signatures collected to the public.
FILE - A logo for Amazon is displayed on a screen at the Nasdaq MarketSite, July 27, 2018. Amazon workers in upstate New York filed a petition for a union election on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022, launching a major labor fight against the company. A spokesperson for the National Labor Relations Board said the petition was filed for a warehouse in the town of Schodack, near Albany. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
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Hekate
(90,664 posts)catsudon
(839 posts)all these supposedly liberal woke companies all suddenly became conservative when it comes to union.
i guess it is cheaper to spend a paltry sum of money to fool us with their developed slogans than paying their workers a living wage.
like the company i'm working for is pushing all the 'education' classes on us workers to take (mandatory) and somehow i doubt the CEO have to look at the material at all. how does teaching me about diversity when i already know about this makes my company a diverse company. it's lip service to pull wools over our eyes.
Pete Ross Junior
(404 posts)... but however good they might be on certain important issues, no billion dollar corporation can ever really be leftist.