After workers won a landmark union election at an Amazon facility in Staten Island last month, a second group of employees at a neighboring building have voted not to unionize.
After workers won a landmark union election at an Amazon facility in Staten Island, New York, last month, a second group of employees at a neighboring building have voted not to unionize.
Of the 998 ballots from the LDJ5 facility counted Monday, 618 were against joining the independent Amazon Labor Union, while 380 were in favor. Amazon captured over 60 percent of the vote at the warehouse, which opened in 2020 and employs many part-time workers. The election results come just weeks after workers at JFK8 — a much larger, neighboring Amazon warehouse — voted. The outcome at LDJ5 is a setback for the union, which gained national attention over the last year for taking on the country’s second-largest employer. The ALU was started by current and former employees, who began by fighting for greater health protections during the pandemic.
"I think people are very uneducated about what unions are about," Mobiley said."There is no job security at Amazon, and they really don't understand the workings of Amazon." The outcome is a major win for Amazon, which invested heavily in thwarting unionization efforts nationwide over the past year. Government filings show it spent more than
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