Amazon is seeking to overturn the historic union victory at one of its New York City warehouses, arguing in a legal filing Friday that union organizers and the U.S. National Labor Relations Board acted in a way that tainted the results. It now wants to redo the election.
The e-commerce giant listed 25 objections in the filing obtained by The Associated Press, accusing organizers with the nascent Amazon Labor Union of intimidating workers to vote for the union, a claim an attorney representing the group has called "patently absurd."
In one objection, Amazon said organizers "intentionally created hostile confrontations in front of eligible voters," by interrupting the mandatory meetings it held to persuade its employees to reject the union drive. In a filing released last week, the company disclosed it spent about US$4.2 million last year on labor consultants.
The company pointed to the lawsuit in one of its objections filed Friday, saying the regional NLRB office that brought the suit "failed to protect the integrity and neutrality of its procedures," and had created an impression of support for the union by seeking reinstatement for the former employee, Gerald Bryson.
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