A bid to unionize Amazon workers at a distribution facility in New York City neared an important milestone, as organizers prepared to deliver hundreds of signatures to the National Labor Relations Board as soon as Monday for authorization to hold a vote.
Organizers say they have collected signatures from more than 2,000 employees at four Amazon facilities in Staten Island.
Organizers need to collect signatures from at least 30% of the workers -- about 7,000 in four Staten Island warehouses -- who would be covered by the resulting collective bargaining agreement. "We've made great progress in recent years and months in important areas like pay and safety," Nantel said. "There are plenty of things that we can keep doing better, and that's our focus -- to keep getting better every day."
A hearing officer for the NLRB found in August that Amazon potentially interfered with the election. And the RWDSU is now waiting for a decision from an NLRB regional director to see whether the hearing officer's guidance will be sanctioned. But even with a second election, labor experts say a union victory is a long shot.
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