Next month, Amazon employees in North Carolina will have the opportunity to vote on unionization.
- In the upcoming month, Amazon employees at a North Carolina warehouse will decide whether to unionize.
- If the election is successful, the warehouse would become the second Amazon site in the U.S. to unionize.
- For the past three years, the organization Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment has been focused on mobilizing staff members.
Next month, warehouse workers at a North Carolina site will vote on whether to unionize, potentially leading to the company's latest labor conflict.
The Garner, North Carolina, facility workers will vote from February 10th to 15th, as per a Tuesday post by Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment, an organization striving to unionize staff members. Neither Amazon nor the National Labor Relations Board responded to requests for comment.
For the past three years, a grassroots group led by current and former employees has been working to organize Amazon employees at the warehouse located in a suburb about 10 miles south of Raleigh, which is known as CAUSE.
If the election is successful, RDU1, Amazon's warehouse in the U.S., would become only the second Amazon site to unionize, following the successful unionization of Amazon's largest warehouse in New York City in 2022. However, negotiations for a contract with Amazon were unsuccessful, and the ALU ultimately voted to affiliate with the Teamsters in June 2022.
In recent years, a few union elections have taken place at Amazon warehouses in the U.S., but the results have either been rejected by employees or are still being contested in lengthy court battles. Last November, a federal labor judge ordered a third re-run election at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, after determining that the company had improperly interfered in the vote.
Last month, the CAUSE union filed for an election at its North Carolina site, stating that 30% of workers signed union authorization cards, which is the minimum required to hold an NLRB vote. The union's goal is to increase wages and enhance working conditions.
The strike by Amazon delivery and warehouse workers at nine facilities last month aimed to pressure the company to negotiate, according to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The strike occurred during peak season, the busiest holiday shopping period of the year. An Amazon representative told Reuters that the company anticipated a minimal impact on deliveries due to the strike.
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