An old saying goes that if at first one doesn’t succeed, one should try and try again. That’s precisely the strategy the union trying to organize an Amazon facility in Bessemer, Alabama appears to be employing.
An old saying goes that if at first one doesn’t succeed, one should try and try again, which is generally good advice. For labor unions that can’t take “no” for an answer, though, it sometimes translates into getting the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to tilt the scales until the “right” outcome results, which doesn’t exactly suggest good public policy. Nevertheless, that’s precisely the strategy the union trying to organize an Amazon facility in Bessemer, Alabama appears to be employing.
It is not much of a secret that the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) would really, really like to be the collective bargaining representative of Amazon’s Bessemer employees, and it has devoted considerable resources to that end, including an angry emoji for good measure.
The problem for the RWDSU, however, is that despite all of its organizing efforts, when Amazon’s employees had their say—after all, it’s supposedly up to them—they voted overwhelmingly against the union last April. Indeed, the vote was not even close: the RWDSU lost by a vote of 738 votes for the union versus 1,798 votes against it. Notwithstanding 505 challenged ballots, the results were, ahem, decisive.
Nonetheless, an NLRB hearing officer issued a report recommending that the results...
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