"Staten Island Amazon warehouse votes to unionize"
Huge win for working people in New York!
The Bessemer union effort is also undergoing a re-vote after Amazon was,unsurprisingly, found by NLRB to have broken numerous laws in suppressing the vote. It's still really close, but seems unlikely to turn the right way.
Staten Island Amazon Workers Vote to Form the Company's First U.S. Union
Around 8,300 people work at the Staten Island warehouse that voted to unionize.
By Chris Mench Published on 4/1/2022 at 1:48 PM
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Today, Staten Island warehouse workers made history by forming the United States' first Amazon union. The workers at a fulfillment center known as JFK8 voted 2,654–2,131 in favor of being represented by the Amazon Labor Union (ALU), the National Labor Relations Board announced. The number of challenged ballots (66) is insufficient to sway the result.
The union can now begin a collective bargaining process for a contract, a historic first for US Amazon workers. The process started in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted working conditions that employees viewed as unsafe. They've since led protests and formed a movement culminating in a vote earlier this week.
The effort represents a significant win for labor organizers, who have long tried to unionize Amazon's legion of workers. It comes on the heels of a series of unionization victories by workers at Starbucks. A unionization vote at a separate fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama appeared to fail on the same day, although the results may be contested. Amazon is the second-largest employer in the United States and employs over 1.6 million people globally.
Workers at a second Staten Island Amazon fulfillment center known as LDJ5 will hold a unionization vote at the end of April.
Chris Mench is an editor focusing on NYC News at Thrillist. You can follow him on Twitter for more of his work.
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5. "who told y'all that AOC is the story of this?" In response to Reply # 2
it's really interesting to me how people who get hit in the face in public see a vote for unionization and immediately turn the conversation to a woman who didn't have a whole lot of involvement in it
8. "Walleye, you a smart guy and I want to here your thoughts on this." In response to Reply # 0
I am a Christian and not a Communist because Christian theology (but not practice) tells us that people aren't shit and can't be trusted and we are all pieces of shit that can't be left to govern each other.
I think we are all socialist but we can't trust the state to really run shit because the shittiness of humanity will eventually prevail and we will all suffer. That is, other systems that consolidate economic power and political power give too much power to the oppressors. They should be at odds (which they currently aren't enough in the US) and if they aren't they eventually become the oppressors.
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