'The voting process wasn't free and fair,' said amazonlabor founder and president Shut_downAmazon after Amazon workers in Albany rejected unionization. 'It was a sham election in which workers were subjected to intimidation and retaliation.'
"The voting process wasn't free and fair," said Amazon Labor Union founder and president Chris Smalls."It was a sham election in which workers were subjected to intimidation and retaliation on a daily basis.
"We're proud of the brave workers in upstate New York who stood up in the face of a vicious anti-union campaign to challenge a trillion-dollar corporation." Workers at Amazon's 1-million-square-foot Schodack fulfillment center rejected unionization by a nearly 2 to 1 margin—406 to 206—after an aggressive push by company executives to thwart organizers.
"We had faced a lot of adversity over the last couple of weeks," lead organizer Heather Goodall, who works at the warehouse, said following the defeat,
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