Amazon introduced a complaint against the establishment of the first union Local media reported this Saturday by workers at a tech giant warehouse in the New York area of Staten Island.
According to the company, union leaders pressured workers to vote in favor of forming unionsan argument that Eric Milner, attorney for the so-called Amazon Labor Union (ALU), has described as “nonsense” according to the CBS channel.
On April 1, employees of Amazon’s JFK8 factory in New York took their toll on the tech giant and After months of struggle, they succeeded in forming the first unit. United States of America the company, It certainly tried to frustrate any attempt at union organizing.
In total, 2,654 personnel were in favor of organizing, but opposed by 2,131 votes. “Amazon chose to ignore this and engage in delaying tactics to avoid the inevitable: sit at the negotiating table and negotiate a contract,” said Milner.
Amazon is the second largest employer in the United States, after only the Walmart supermarket chain, and triggered both its activity and profit since the start of the pandemic It hired tens of thousands of new workers, Efe reported.
Impact of the pandemic
The outbreak of the pandemic in 2020 has lifted the morale of many Amazon workers and other large companies in the country, such as the Starbucks coffee chain in the United States, who denounced their employers’ failure to take the necessary measures to protect them from Covid. -19.
The Amazon Workers Union was founded after it was founded by union leader Christian Smalls. Fired in March 2020 for holding a strike to denounce the lack of protection for workers at a time when he held a supervisory position at the distribution center after the covid-19 outbreak.
Again, The company claimed it was fired for bypassing security protocols. Appearing at the facility despite being asked to self-quarantine after exposure to the coronavirus.
company strategy
Founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, the company has spent a lot of effort and money to prevent its workers from uniting in one voice for the collective bargaining negotiations that would be the next step if the union was finally formally formed.
Over the years, its rulers had managed to foil any attempt through repression, harassment and information campaigns against the labor movement.
In the Staten Island case, posters saying “Vote No” were affixed to the facilities, but the company also launched a web page in the same direction.