Amazon employees in New Jersey will maintain a union election

Amazon.com Inc. employees at a facility in New Jersey have met the edge to carry a union election simply weeks after staff at a Staten Island, New York, warehouse turned the primary to unionize within the retailer’s U.S. historical past.

Native 713 Worldwide Brotherhood of Commerce Unions is hoping to unionize 200 employees at an Amazon facility in Bayonne, New Jersey, in keeping with the Nationwide Labor Relations Board. Native 713 relies in Carle Place, New York, and was based in 1995, in keeping with its web site.

The dimensions of the workforce on the Bayonne facility is way smaller than the hundreds of staff on the JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island. Earlier this month, the Staten Island workforce backed the upstart Amazon Labor Union to characterize it. The ALU is scheduled to have a second election later this month at one other Staten Island facility that employs 1,500 employees.

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The date for the Bayonne election hasn’t been determined. Amazon didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

Native 713 introduced in income of $7.3 million, with $6.1 million in web property in 2018, the final yr non-profit filings have been out there for the union. Peter Hasho, the union’s president emeritus on the time, acquired pay of greater than $1 million a yr, in keeping with the submitting.

To satisfy the edge to carry a union election, greater than 30% of employees should be in favor. Earlier than the ALU’s victory, efforts to unionize Amazon employees within the U.S. had led to defeat.

The Retail, Wholesale and Division Retailer Union misplaced an election final yr to characterize employees in Bessemer, Alabama. That election was ordered to be run once more in a mail-in poll that led to March. The union is trailing with the outcomes nonetheless contested.

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