Amazon has won a second union challenge at its Bessemer fulfillment center, as workers once again vote against being represented by the Retail, Wholesale & Department Store Union.
“Every vote will be counted,” RWDSU President Stuart Appelbaum said. “In the days to come, we fully expect Amazon to continue to manipulate the system, to stop workers...at any cost...We will continue to do everything we can to hold Amazon accountable.”
According to the NLRB, 6,153 workers were eligible to vote in February, with 2,375 ballots returned in total. That works out to a turnout percentage of 38.6%. Last November, the National Labor Relations Board ordered a new union election, with an NLRB director ruling that Amazon showed “flagrant disregard” for the mail-in vote by installing a mailbox on the Bessemer campus, making a “free and fair election impossible.”
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