On December 2, 2024, during Cyber Monday, one of the company’s busiest days, an Amazon employee worked hard to fulfill orders for the day at an Amazon fulfillment center in Orlando, Florida.
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Amazon Warehouse workers at a North Carolina plant will vote next month on whether to join a union, setting the stage for the company’s latest labor battle.
Workers at the Garner, N.C., plant will reportedly vote from February 10 to February 15 Tuesday Posts on X Sponsored by Carolina Amazon Solidarity and Empowerment, a group dedicated to organizing workers. Representatives for Amazon and the National Labor Relations Board did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
called reasonThe grassroots group, led by current and former employees, has been working for the past three years to organize Amazon workers at the warehouse in the suburb about 10 miles south of Raleigh.
If the election is successful, the warehouse, known as RDU1, will become the second unionized Amazon site in the United States. Workers at Amazon’s largest warehouse in New York vote to join The Amazon union was formed in 2022, but the group has encountered difficulties negotiating a contract with Amazon. In June last year, the ALU Vote for affiliates With the truck driver.
Amazon has held several union elections at its U.S. warehouses in recent years, but employees have either refuse to join a trade union Or the outcome continues to be disputed in a lengthy court battle. Last November, a federal labor judge Ordered a third re-election The investigation began at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, after it was ruled that the company improperly interfered with the vote.
CAUSE filed for a union election last month and said in a press release that 30% of workers at the North Carolina plant signed union authorization cards, the necessary threshold to trigger an NLRB vote. Organizers are seeking higher wages and better working conditions.
Union filings follow Amazon delivery and warehouse workers Nine factories go on strike That forced the company back to the negotiating table last month, according to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represents employees. The move is aimed at disrupting Amazon’s operations during the busiest holiday shopping period of the year, known as peak season. Amazon Representative told Reuters The company expects the strike to have limited impact on deliveries.
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