Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, New York, filed for a union election just two days before the union election starts for Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama.
According to the compromised vote count, Bessemer workers resoundingly rejected the union last year – but organizers say that this union drive will be different.
“The reason why I think it’s going to be different this time around is just by the sheer fact that a lot of us are showing that we are committed to forming our union,” organizer and Amazon worker Isaiah Thomas . “A lot of us are showing that regardless of the things they throw our way, whether it be the turnover rate, or whether it be the mandatory anti-union meetings, or whether it be surveillance, we’re going to stick together.”last month, saying that the company attempted to discipline him for talking to colleagues about the union, a tactic that is potentially illegal. The company also placed him under increased surveillance, Thomas said in his complaint.
Organizers believe that the second election could potentially have a greater turnout because some workers may have been misinformed during the vote last year. Since then, pro-union workers have been bolder in speaking up during management’s union-busting meetings, which has “done wonders,” Clint Shiflett told More Perfect Union. “That has really helped to shift the attitude towards the union.”
Though neither of Staten Island’s elections have started yet, the company currently faces charges of illegal union busting in the JFK8 campaign. Last week, the NLRB said that Amazon was illegally surveilling, interrogating and threatening employees who were organizing. According to the NLRB, one representative referred to union organizers as “thugs,” a racist term, and said that their effort was destined to fail.
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