Amazon Fires Senior Executives at Unionized Staten Island Warehouse

After Amazon employees in a giant warehouse in Staten Island won a sad union victory last month, union leaders celebritiessent shock waves through the wider labor movement and mobilized the politicians Nationwide to rally behind Amazon workers. Now, it seems to have spawned fallout in Amazon’s management ranks as well. On Thursday, Amazon reported that …

Amazon Workers Start Voting Union at Another Staten Island Facility

About 1,500 workers at an Amazon sorting center in Staten Island will qualify to vote this week in an election that could form the company’s second union in the US. This month, an Amazon warehouse with more than 8,000 employees in Staten Island, vote to unionizeAlthough it supports the union by a margin of more …

Amazon Workers in Staten Island Vote to Unionize

Workers at Amazon’s massive Staten Island warehouse voted by a wide margin to form a union, a stunning win for a campaign targeting the nation’s second-largest employer and one of the biggest victories for organized labor, according to results announced Friday. generation. According to the first tally released by the National Labor Relations Board, employees …

The NLRB sued Amazon over its labor practices at a Staten Island facility.

The National Labor Relations Board sued Amazon in federal court on Thursday, asking a judge to force the company to quickly fix what it calls “manifestly unfair labor practices” before workers at one of its Staten Island warehouses go to work. voting in a union election next week. The lawsuit, filed in New York’s Eastern …

A Second Amazon Site on Staten Island Will Have a Union Election

The National Labor Relations Board approves a union election for the second time Amazon The Staten Island warehouse opens a new front in the growing challenges to the company’s workforce model. The agency reported to the company Wednesday that the new Amazon Labor Union in Staten Island had gathered enough signatures to prove sufficient interest …

Troop Selection Set at Amazon’s Staten Island Warehouse

A fledgling labor union at Amazon and Staten Island warehouses agreed to terms for an election for the end of March, setting the stage for two major elections at Amazon warehouses simultaneously. The Staten Island warehouse election will be held in person March 25-30, according to Christian Smalls, a former Amazon employee in Staten Island …

Amazon Staten Island Workers Withdraw Union Vote Request

Workers at four Amazon warehouses in Staten Island withdrew their demands for union votes, casting doubt on the imminent pressure to organize at an Amazon workplace that could lead to a second election in less than a year. The group asked Friday to withdraw its election petition, and the National Labor Relations Board approved. Christian …

Amazon workers in Staten Island applied for union election.

A fledgling employee union at four Amazon warehouses in Staten Island has formally requested an election Monday to form a union, the National Labor Relations Board said. For months, the organizers behind the union initiative had been collecting signatures for cards that had to be presented to the employment agency to ask for votes. Christian …

Amazon Workers in Staten Island Aim for Union Voting

In a tent next to the Staten Island bus stop, four plastic tubs contain piles of cards with valuable signatures: the signatures of more than 1,700 hourly Amazon employees. The cards read, “I, the undersigned, authorize Amazon Labor Union to represent me for collective bargaining.” The Commitments are the result of six months of organization …