workers at a warehouse on Staten Island in New York will hold a union vote next month. Derrick Palmer of the Amazon Labor Union (ALU), an independent group that’s seeking to represent workers at JFK8, says the election will take place in person between March 25th and March 30th.
The workers with the National Labor Relations Board in December after failing to obtain enough signatures in their . This time around, the workers reached the union vote threshold, which is usually 30 percent of a workforce. More than 5,000 workers are employed at JFK8.
The NLRB has accused Amazon of threatening, surveilling and interrogating workers at JFK8 to dissuade them from unionizing. A union avoidance consultant reportedly called organizers “thugs” and said the union drive would fail.
Earlier this month, workers at another Staten Island warehouse called LDJ5 with the NLRB to unionize with the help of the ALU.
Another union vote is taking place at a facility in Bessemer, Alabama. The NLRB at BHM1 after it Amazon in the first vote, in which a majority of employees . Votes will be counted starting on March 28th. Last month, a union supporter at the warehouse accused Amazon of .
Engadget has contacted Amazon for comment.
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