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 Carolina Amazonians Alliance for Solidarity and Empowerment, a group seeking to organize 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 City voted to join Amazon’s union in 2022, but the group has struggled to negotiate a contract with Amazon, and last June the American Federation of Workers voted to join the Teamsters union.
Amazon has held several union elections at its U.S. warehouses in recent years, but workers have either refused to unionize or the results have continued to be disputed in lengthy court battles. 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.
Amazon’s delivery and warehouse workers filed union documents after they went on strike at nine facilities last month in an effort to force the company back to the bargaining table, according to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represents Amazon workers. 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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