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The Staten Island warehouse was only the second Amazon facility to hold a union election. The first, a mail ballot held last year at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, was invalidated by ...
NEW YORK - Amazon workers on Staten Island voted to unionize on Friday, marking the first successful U.S. organizing effort in the retail giant's history and handing an unexpected win to a nascent ...
A hearing is underway to consider whether the Amazon Labor Union's historic union victory on Staten Island should stand — or whether a re-do election is warranted. This spring, workers at the ...
workers at Amazon’s JFK8 fulfillment center on Staten Island voted 2654 to 2131 in favor of joining the Amazon Labor Union – an upstart union led by Chris Smalls, who was fired from the facility ...
an Amazon employee who was fired and who has been leading the Amazon Labor Union in its fight in Staten Island, bounded out of the NLRB building in Brooklyn on Friday with other union organizers ...
April 1, 2022 It was a union organizing campaign that few expected to have a chance. A handful of employees at Amazon’s massive warehouse on Staten Island, operating without support from ...
Gene Bruskin, a longtime labor organizer who advised the Amazon Labor Union in the two Staten Island elections, said that a win would have produced “a huge wind at their backs,” but that on ...
In a historic event, after other attempts failed, employees at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of New York City, voted Friday to join a union. Staring down the might ...
Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island have started a union drive. This follows a failed union drive at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. The Bessemer drive was tied to an ...
Seven union activists with the Teamsters were handcuffed, detained and criminally charged while protesting outside an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island last month, as tensions between the e ...
“Our employees have always had a choice of whether or not to join a union, and as we saw just a few months ago, the vast majority of our team in Staten Island did not support the [Amazon Labor ...
At least 50 Amazon warehouse employees in Staten Island, New York were suspended from their jobs after refusing to work in the wake of a trash compactor fire on Monday, union organizers say.