The Amazon workers mostly voted against an offer to organize their warehouse in North Carolina, the National Labor Relations Board announced on Saturday, the recent setback in organizing the work organization at the e-commerce giant.
The workers of the RDU1 Fulfillment Center in Garner outside of Raleigh voted against the union with Carolina Amazonian United for solidarity and strengthening or the empowerment, a union founded by warehouse workers, which was founded in 2022 by warehouse workers.
The organizers of the warehouse, in which more than 4,000 people are employed, applied for the starting wages of $ 30 per hour. The current salary span is around 18 to 24 US dollars, said Amazon. The union also called for longer lunch breaks and a higher vacation time.
In a statement, managers told the matter that the election result was the result of Amazon's “tireless and illegal efforts to intimidate us”. They did not say whether they would question the result, but swore to continue organizing.
Eileen Hards, a spokeswoman for Amazon, wrote: “We are glad that our team in Garner could hear their voices and that they decided to have a direct relationship with Amazon.”
Before the election, the union conducted by employees at the Labor Relations Board was sufficient for the interventions of the protected union activities of the employees. The company gave workers who did not support the union to have preferred treatment. Amazon was wrongly released the Union's co -founder a week before submitting a election in the union in December, said Cause in a submission.
Amazon contested any mix of election. The employees have the choice whether they should join a union, and the company speaks “open, openly and respectfully” about union formation, said Ms. Hards before the vote. She said that the co -founder of the matter was one of the “repeated misconduct, that he made derogatory and racist comments to his employees”.
Ms. Hards, who were expressed by the union, said that the company has already offered safe jobs, competitive wages, industry -leading services and consistent planning. The matter of the matter, she added, “had no experience with the representation of employees or their interests.”
In addition to what it described as the company's resistance, the organizers of the warehouse stood in front of a surroundings in the south that was historically hostile to the unions. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the union membership in North Carolina was 2.4 percent last year, the lowest rate in the country and well below the national average of 9.9 percent.
Amazon has aggressive union campaigns and defined the negotiating process in several business areas, including camps, delivery operations and grocery stores.
In 2022, workers voted in a State of Island Warehouse in New York for the first Amazon union in the USA. It is now connected to the Teamsters Union. Amazon questioned the election result in court and refused to recognize the union or business with it. Delivery drivers who work for parcel connection companies of third -party providers who serve Amazon have also installed campaigns with the team stars.
The movements of the Trump administration in the labor relationship committee since the inauguration -including the replacement of General Counsel, who was appointed in the Biden administration, who was considered friendly to Labor, was able to further encourage employers to refuse to organize and reject gender rights, Labor Law expert said.
The workers at a location of the Whole Foods market in Philadelphia voted in January at the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, which set up the first union bridgehead in the Amazon food chain. In a registration with the Labor Board, which questioned the election, the company quoted President Trump by a democratic board member based on the board of a quorum that was necessary to issue decisions.
In January, Amazon said that it closes its warehouse and logistics company in the Canadian province of Quebec, where the unions would gain a foothold in some Amazon workers and released 1,700 employees.
The elections in North Carolina are not the first unsuccessful union offer under Amazon Warehouse workers. In 2021, workers voted in a warehouse in Bessemer, Ala. The workers voted a second time in 2022, but the result was too close to Call, which asked a Labor judge to organize a third choice. This vote still has to be held and Amazon has contested misconduct.
“Ultimately, the largest for which we are fighting is,” said Italo Medelius-Marsano, a member of the Cause Organizing Committee, which works on the RDU1 ship dock. “We make sure that Amazon knows that we are humans,” he said, quoting the expression of the movement: “I'm not a robot.”