Amazon labor organizers popped champagne bottles in celebration after workers at a New York facility voted to become the company’s first unionized warehouse. Employees at JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island voted 2,654 to 2,131 in favor of unionization.
The National Labor Relations Board still needs to formally certify the vote results. Both parties need to file any objections by April 8.Amazon fired him in 2020
under the allegation that he breached social distancing guidelines, but Smalls claimed that his firing was a retaliatory move for a protest he staged calling for better safety rules in the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic. Amazon workers at a Staten Island, New York, warehouse successfully voted to join a union Friday, establishing the major retail company's first organized facility in the U.S. Above, Amazon Labor Union members celebrate after an update during the voting results on April 1, 2022, in Brooklyn.
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