Amazon warehouse staff that work at a fulfillment center outside of Albany, New York have filed a petition for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the NLRB told The Verge on Tuesday. The employees, who work at Amazon's ALB1 warehouse, have filed for a unit that would encompass around 400 workers at the facility.

To file for a union petition, more than 30 percent of the proposed unit would have signed union authorization cards. The NLRB is currently ensuring that this step has been taken and expects to verify the petition in a matter of days and proceed to arranging a formal election.

The Albany workers are orga …

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Amazon has reportedly fired several senior managers that were part of "operations and leadership" at JFK8, the facility in Staten Island, New York that recently voted to unionize. According to the The New York Times, Amazon told the managers it was going through an "organizational change," but some of their co-workers see it as a punishment for the union's win.

The Times writes that "more than half a dozen" managers were fired, and that many of them had been tasked with responding to unionization efforts. What that means is frustratingly vague - it could mean that the managers were tasked with keeping the union from winning, and that they w …

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Amazon workers at the LDJ5 facility in Staten Island, New York, have voted against organizing with the Amazon Labor Union at a count of 618 nos to 380 yeses. The facility has around 1,600 workers in total and began its election last week.

It's been a long road to the election at LDJ5. In October 2021, the ALU petitioned the National Labor Relations Board (or NLRB) to hold an election at four Staten Island facilities, including the sorting center. However, to make sure it had a sufficient showing of interest, the union refiled its petition to only include the JFK8 facility. In February, the ALU filed a new petition to hold an election for LD …

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Today, workers at Amazon's LDJ5 warehouse facility will vote on whether to organize with the Amazon Labor Union (ALU), the same union that pulled off a historic win at another Staten Island, New York, facility earlier this month. With ballots scheduled to be counted on May 2nd, the election will last just one week. After months of slow buildup, workers are just a week away from learning whether their site will unionize - assuming there aren't any tiebreaker court fights of the kind that held up Bessemer's second vote.

The ALU is riding high after the election at the JFK8 facility, and it's fair to say momentum is on the side of the organize …

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In an all-hands meeting with employees on Tuesday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy addressed the mounting efforts to unionize the company's fulfillment centers. The discussion was sparked by an employee who asked about the company's position on unions, per a recording of the meeting obtained by The Verge.

Jassy argued that unionization would make employees of the company feel less empowered. "One of the things that's unique about Amazon is that we have unusual empowerment for our employees," he said. "If they see something they can do better for customers - or just for themselves - to get together, get in a room, decide to change it, and change it, a …

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Amazon has been ordered to reinstate an employee unlawfully fired by the company two years ago for his involvement in safety protests at a Staten Island warehouse.

Gerald Bryson was protesting outside the Amazon facility known as JFK8 on April 6th 2020, when he got into an argument with an employee on a break. Court filings (which include transcripts of the incident taken from videos as appendixes B and C) show that both Bryson and the employee used profanities and insults against one another. Bryson said Amazon should shut down the warehouse for failing to adequately protect workers against COVID-19, while the employee replied "it's the on …

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Amazon has officially filed its objections to the Amazon Labor Union's win in Staten Island, New York, and is asking the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to order a new election. The objections expand upon a document the company recently submitted that signaled its intent to fight the election results - the company now says that ALU members "intimidated employees," "recorded voters in the polling place," and "distributed marijuana to employees in exchange for their support," according to an excerpt posted by Financial Times reporter Dave Lee.

The full complaint was not immediately available from the NLRB on Friday. The Amazon Labor Uni …

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