Fresh off their historic win against online retailer Amazon, Staten Island warehouse workers who voted to form a union earlier this month are loading up their arsenal as the internet behemoth ratchets up its defenses against the upstart group.
Amazon has filed more than two dozen objections with the National Labor Relations Board and seeks to overturn the Amazon Labor Union victory at the Staten Island JFK8 warehouse. The company argues that the union intimidated workers into voting in favor of organizing and alleges that the federal agency gave the ALU preferential treatment by filing a lawsuit against the internet retailer ahead of the vote.
And that’s not even the toughest battle the self-organized workers face.
Amazon Labor Union leaders are readying themselves for what they consider “the real fight” — winning a collective bargaining agreement against Amazon, one of the world’s biggest and best-resourced companies. Company lawyers have tools at their disposal to delay or head off contract bargaining by burying the union in bureaucratic tape or stalling negotiations.
Solidarity is now the theme for union leaders, who are holding out an olive branch to employees who voted “no” amid a fierce anti-union corporate campaign that included mandatory worker meetings that the NLRB’s top lawyer is seeking to abolish.
“I want to thank all of the workers who voted yes, and even the ones that are misinformed. We’re here to inform you that this is not a war between us. Let’s unify...
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