It may be a new year, but some things don’t seem to change much, such as the ongoing antics of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in assisting organizing campaigns that fail miserably. Take, for instance, Amazon, the fifth-largest company in the world that reportedly added 500,000 job opportunities in 2020, over 400,000 of which were in the United States..
As this blog chronicled last April, the results of a union representation election at Amazon’s distribution facility in Bessemer, Ala., did not exactly turn out the way the union wanted, which is to say the union lost decisively. Indeed, after tallying 3,051 ballots from 5,876 eligible voters, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) had 738 in favor versus 1,798 against it. Another 505 challenged ballots were never reviewed given the wide margin of defeat.
One might think that a lopsided 2:1 outcome rejecting the RWDSU would be enough to convince the union’s top brass that it might be better to seek greener pastures, so to speak, but that would belie the union tradition of refusing to take “no” for an answer. Instead, union officials groused about their defeat and vowed to keep up their campaign against Amazon, and so they did.
A key part of the union’s strategy included lobbing a litany of dubious charges against Amazon with the NLRB, hoping perhaps one would stick and force a new election to be held. One of the union’s chief complaints included the fact that the U.S. Postal Service apparently...
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