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Amazon Loses Bid to Overturn Union Victory at Staten Island Warehouse [1]
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Date: 2023-01-11
The company said it intended to appeal the decision to the labor board in Washington. “As we’ve said since the beginning, we don’t believe this election process was fair, legitimate or representative of the majority of what our team wants,” the statement said.
In an interview at The New York Times DealBook conference in late November, Andy Jassy, Amazon’s chief executive, indicated that the company would not drop its challenges, calling the fight “far from over.”
“That has a real chance to end up in federal courts,” Mr. Jassy said.
The N.L.R.B. regional director found that the evidence Amazon presented either did not establish that the board or the union acted improperly or that it did not show that their actions altered the outcome of the election.
For example, Amazon had accused the labor board of failing to control the presence of members of the news media near the voting area. But the regional director found that “the press was peaceably assembled and not engaged in harassment of voters” and that board officials “had no responsibility to instruct the press not to talk to voters or to leave the employer’s property.”
Workers at the warehouse, known as JFK8, voted to join the independent Amazon Labor Union in an election whose results were announced in April. More than 8,000 employees were eligible to take part, and the union won by roughly 10 percentage points.
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