Second Amazon Facility On Staten Island To Hold Union Election This Coming Monday...

Well. . . with news arriving about a week ago, that Amazon had been ordered by an ALJ at the NLRB to reinstate the former employee it fired (whom then organized a union group -- which in turn won the first Staten Island facility's election, last month). . . it seems Amazon needs more aggressive "people coaching" -- in the mid-to-upper level management ranks, here.

The old ways (of rigid, militaristic patrimony). . . of in short, telling people what their opinions ought to be, on the job. . . are at an end. Especially in roles that are not-directly customer-facing.

The labor market is too tight now, for good workers to tolerate that. They will vote with their feet -- or with a union organizer, if conditions are bad enough -- and widespread, in a larger facility. A very soft, teaming and consensus building approach would serve Amazon's upper management (Condor opines) in the warehouses, much more effectively. And if those managers cannot adapt. . . they should be let go. Word.

Here's the latest from TechCrunch+ -- about the coming reckoning, of Monday for Mr. Bezos' shareholdings:

. . .Emboldened by the recent results of the nearby JFK8 fulfillment center, workers at Staten Island’s LDJ5 sort center are set to hold their own vote this coming Monday, April 25th. Voting will continue through Friday the 29th, with vote counting set to begin on May 2 — almost exactly a month after April’s historic results.

Votes will be cast via secret ballot inside a tent, with monitoring by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Following a 2,654 to 2,131 union victory in the JFK8 vote, Amazon openly accused the NLRB of putting its thumb on the scale. The company told TechCrunch [blah blah blah]. . . .

I admit to more than a little genuine excitement, here -- having seen, and participated in, what I regard as the last resurgence of union activity (in Colorado mining), many, many years ago. There have been flickers, since -- but this is new to the 21^st Century -- all new, to those who were still in college -- at the end of the last Millennium. Smile. . . and off -- to the flannel sheets, I go -- still chilly at night here, around the upper midwest lake country. Be excellent to one another.

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