Employees at Amazon’s Staten Island, New York Warehouse voted for training The first American association for an e-commerce giant. In the vote, 2,654 employees said they supported the union and 2,131 were opposed, according to data provided by the National Labor Relations Board in Brooklyn.
The historic vote is the result of the battle of Christian Smalls, a former Amazon employee who was fired for organizing a protest in 2020 for greater protection against Covid, and who created the Amazon workers union through which he secured victory over the Seattle giant who In the past he succeeded in blocking any further attempt to join guilds. “Congratulations, we worked, had fun and made history,” Smalls tweeted today.
“Amazon has demonstrated its willingness to dedicate virtually unlimited resources to anti-union campaigns, and these workers have really won against all odds,” commented Rebecca Jevan, a labor relations expert at Rutgers University. “It really is a historic victory and perhaps a huge shock for Amazon,” he added.
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