The online retailer is closer to having to bargain with staff on a contract at its JFK8 facility in Staten Island
A US labour board director has upheld Amazon workers’ landmark union victory at a warehouse in New York, according to a decision issued Wednesday, bringing the online retailer closer to having to bargain with staff on a contract.
“We knew it was unlikely that the NLRB Regional Office would rule against itself, and intend to appeal,” Kelly Nantel, Amazon spokesperson, said in a statement. The victory marked the first time US staff at Amazon had decided to unionise in the company’s nearly three-decade history, as well as a watershed moment for organised labour, which has taken issue with productivity tracking among other practices at the country’s second-largest private employer.
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