In a major victory for Jeff Bezos’ emboldened retail and technology empire, Amazon superseded efforts to unionize its warehouse in Bessemer, Ala.
The e-commerce juggernaut on Friday garnered more than 1,608 votes to reject the proposed union liaison – a heated form that threatened to influence similar recruitment efforts going on in Amazon warehouses across the country Labor fought is closing the fight.
Amazon needed just 1,608 votes or more than half of the ballots to defeat Union Drive. According to the official tally released on Friday, it received 1,798.
Only 738 votes were cast in favor of joining the union, According to the National Labor Relations Board, Which counted the votes.
Only 55 percent of the 6,000 employees in the warehouse voted in the election, according to reports, claiming 5,800 supporters were relieved by crushing the union in advance.
The union, meanwhile, is crying foul, calling Amazon “illegally interfering” with the mean process. The retail, wholesale, department store union said it would hear a complaint from the NLRB to set aside the election results.
The union has claimed that it “created an atmosphere of confusion, coercion and / or fear and thus interfered with employees’ freedom of choice.”
The e-commerce titan took a commanding lead after the labor group said that about 500 ballots were challenged in Amazon’s union election.
An Amazon spokesperson said, “Votes at a rate of about 4 to 1”. The NLRB also presented some challenges.
RWDSU President Stuart Applebaum said in a statement, “Amazon was well aware that until they could do everything, even illegal activity, even their activists would continue to support the union.” ” This is why, he said, he told all his employees the need to attend lecture after lecture, full of misunderstandings and lies, where workers had to listen to the company’s demand, in which they opposed the union. So they put a flood of advertisements spreading misinformation on the internet, airwaves and social media. “
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