Amazon workers vote against unionizing at upstate NY warehouse [View all]
"Amazon warehouse workers near Albany, N.Y., have voted no to a union, delivering a blow to the fledgling effort to organize employees at one of the country's largest employers.
More than 900 Amazon employees were eligible to vote on whether to join the upstart Amazon Labor Union, run by current and former Amazon warehouse workers unaffiliated with traditional unions. The vote tally was 406 votes against unionizing to 206 votes in favor.
The ALU previously made history when it won a union election on Staten Island in New York, unionizing Amazon's first U.S. warehouse, one with more than 8,300 workers. Later, it fell short of winning enough votes to unionize a second warehouse on Staten Island in New York. And Amazon is still pushing to overturn the ALU's win in a case that's likely to make its way into courts.
After decades of successfully fighting off labor organizing attempts as it grew into one of the nation's top employers, Amazon has now faced five union elections in less than two years. With Tuesday's result, unions have so far prevailed in only one of the five. Last week, Amazon workers in California became the latest to petition for their own vote to join the ALU."
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/18/1128487687/amazon-workers-vote-against-unionizing-at-upstate-ny-warehouse
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