But personally, I've heard through labor lawyer friends of mine, in the city of big shoulders that a chapter of the ALU is now officially up and running here. How soon until this election in Chicago? I'll let you know, as I learn more.
In any event, here's the current Motherboard story (on continuing poor decision-making in upper levels of people management, at Amazon):
. . .Amazon has fired two outspoken Staten Island warehouse workers who helped organize a union at JFK8, Amazon’s largest warehouse in New York City, the workers told Motherboard.
The victory at JFK8 in April marked the first time in U.S. labor history that workers have successfully unionized at the fiercely anti-union company. The tech behemoth has so far refused to recognize the union and has asked the National Labor Relations Board to throw out the results of the election. . . .
On May 3, Amazon human resources notified Mat Cusick, the comms lead for Amazon Labor Union and an Amazon warehouse worker, that he had been terminated for “voluntary resignation due to job abandonment,” according to an email obtained by Motherboard. Cusick had been on COVID-related leave.
Amazon notified another warehouse employee, Tristan Dutchin, an outspoken ALU organizer, whose photo has been prominently featured across major media outlets in recent weeks, in a meeting on May 7 that he had been terminated for falling behind on productivity targets, Dutchin told Motherboard. . . .
Well -- it seems AMZN is intent on reaping the whirlwind, here. Last week, we reported the preliminary finding of the staffers at NLRB. . . that violations of fair electioneering rights, under 29 U.S.C. § 158(a)(1) (also known as the National Labor Relations Act, or the "NLRA") occurred at JFK8.
At JFK8, this will in turn soon lead to a certification and a bargaining order, since Mr. Smalls won by about a two to one margin at JFK8. Grinning now. . . sunshine streaming in -- Spring is here.
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