Employees of a warehouseAmazon in New York trying to create
a syndicate announced on Monday that they had taken the first step. “We already have over 2,000 signatures and this is just the start,” the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) movement said.
The movement’s lawyer assured the federal agency in charge of labor law (National Labor Relations Board) that the minimum number of signatures required among the employees of the warehouse, or 30%, was reached. According to him, a hearing has been set for November 15 by the NLRB to discuss the procedure.
WE DID IT!!! Our petition has officially been docketed.! We await Amazon’s many objections, but it doesn’t matter. History has been made today ✊✊✊❤️❤️❤️#UnionizeAmazon#SolidarityForever pic.twitter.com/Xdcun1IMFY
— Amazon Labor Union (@amazonlabor) October 25, 2021
Fail in Alabama in April
Until then, Amazon has the obligation to inform its employees that the file has been validated. “We doubt that a sufficient number of legitimate employee signatures have been obtained to justify an election “, However reacted a spokesperson for Amazon in a statement.
Dressed in red overalls and wearing the mask of The Money Heist, Christian Smalls, leader of the ALU and himself dismissed from Amazon a few months ago, assured that “the world is watching us”. ”
New York is a city of unions, and we will prove it, ”he said. Behind him stood a caricature of the former CEO of the group, Jeff Bezos.
To win in a future vote, more than half of the warehouse workers will have to vote in favor of the creation of a union. This would be a first for United States. In April, in an Amazon warehouse in Alabama,
the no had won despite the mobilization to the top of the state.
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