'The most fundamental right a worker has in Canada is to decide whether the workplace is unionized or not'

A group of Amazon employees is pushing back against being unionized in B.C.

They originally filed a decertification application with the BC Labour Relations Board on July 14, and a board-supervised vote was held about a week later, the Globe and Mail reported.

On Aug. 4, the board ordered binding arbitration to settle a first contract between Amazon and Unifor Local 114, which represents roughly 800 employees at the company's YVR2 fulfillment centre.

Days after the arbitration order, the group revived its campaign, asking the board to release the vote results before any collective agreement takes effect.

A letter dated Aug. 11, obtained by the Globe and Mail and circulated within the Delta warehouse, asserts that more than half of employees do not want union representation. It was signed only by a "representative for certain employees," and it remains unclear how many workers support it.

"The most fundamental right a worker has in Canada is to decide whether the workplace is unionized or not," the letter stated, according to the Globe and Mail. "And that right is protected by a secret ballot government supervised vote." Amazon has pointed to this unresolved question as grounds for its appeal.

Amazon spokesperson Sam Stephenson said the company is appealing the board's order and asking it to halt the process until a separate decertification issue is resolved.

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