Workers at Amazon warehouses in North Carolina rejected proposals to unionize, becoming the latest group of company employees, Union Representative.
Approximately three-quarters of employees at the Amazon Fulfillment Centre in Garner, a town near Raleigh, voted against joining a grassroots labor organization called Carolina Amazon United for solidarity and empowerment, said the National Labor Relations Commissioner The meeting was announced on Saturday.
The Federal Labor Bureau said 2,447 workers voting against union representatives, with 829 voted in favor of joining an independent union made up of former and current Amazon workers. The NLRB said 4,300 Amazon workers are eligible to vote in elections held between Monday and Saturday.
“We were already in support of ourselves because of the loss,” Rev. Ryan Brown, a former Amazon worker who co-founded the group, said on Saturday.
“We knew historically that the tide would win against us for a number of reasons,” Brown said. “One thing, we are in the south, two of us, the average worker in North Carolina, knows nothing about the benefits of the union and its union, and what it can do for them. ”
The results came weeks after workers at Whole Foods Market Store in Pennsylvania I voted for the unionleading to the first success of organised labor into the Amazon-owned grocery chain. Following the union’s victory, Whole Foods asked the NLRB to abandon the election results, claiming the voting process was contaminated.
In 2022, workers from Amazon warehouses in the New York City Autonomous Borough on Staten Island teamed up with the Amazon Workers Union and joined forces with Teamsters last year. However, Amazon opposed the election outcome and refused to negotiate contractually.
At the same time, the company was able to successfully dodge the union’s victory at its second warehouse on Staten Island, a facility near Albany in New York and in Bessemer, Alabama.
In November, an NLRB administrative law judge ordered a third union election for Bessemer’s Amazon warehouse workers after finding they committed six violations leading to a rebroadcast election in March 2022. , which challenged the first election as they were trying to represent Amazon workers in Bessemer, resulting in union losses.
Workers at Carolina Amazon’s United for solidarity, empowerment, or cause have been held in North Carolina warehouses since January 2022. Brown’s co-founder Brown said in an interview last month that he began organizing because he felt that Amazon didn’t provide appropriate protection to workers. Against Covid-19.
The company said Saturday that Amazon already offers what many unions are demanding, including a safe and inclusive workplace and competitive salaries.
“We are pleased that Garner’s team has been able to hear their voices and have chosen to maintain a direct relationship with Amazon,” Amazon spokesman Eileen Hades said in writing.
