Separately, 50 first shift workers on Staten Island at JFK8 have been suspended for refusing an order to go back to work, on the floor -- after a fire broke out on the third shift. That has been grieved to the NLRB as well.
Yep -- this is my monthly catch up post on stuff I saw about labor matters at Amazon: closer to my neck of the woods, on Prime Day, down in Joliet, many of the workers staged a one day brown out (after racist death threat signs were seen in the facility), prior to Prime Day. That Joliet facility is scheduled to vote on whether ALU Chicago will represent them, next month. But here is the latest, from Barrons -- on Albany:
. . .Amazon workers at an upstate New York warehouse began voting Wednesday on whether to unionize in the latest labor battle following a surprise union win earlier this year at another Amazon site.
Amazon Labor Union (ALU), which won a unionization vote in April at the 8,000-employee JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island in New York City, is hoping to follow up that upset with another win at a much smaller Amazon facility near the state capital Albany.
Some 400 full-time hourly workers at the ALB1 site in Castelton-On-Hudson, about 150 miles (240 kilometers) north of Manhattan, will vote between Wednesday and Monday on whether to be represented by ALU.
The National Labor Relations Board, which is overseeing the election, plans to begin counting ballots on Tuesday, October 18. . . .
Meanwhile, Bezos is preparing to launch. . . [mumbles something. . .] called Kuiper -- named after the Kuiper Belt. [But he keeps switching rocket vendors. . . is he refusing to pay regular market rates (I am given to understand), just as he plainly treats his. . . hired labor pools?] Damn.
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Took me a bit to find.
https://cnycentral.com/news/local/legal-fight-underway-after-couple-says-amazon-clay-facility-punished-them-for-union-talks
Outside my hometown.
Thanks so much, Anon. --
I've actually slowed to a once a month post, on some topic related to Amazon business practices (labor mistreatment, antitrust violations, or Bezos' space venture foolishness). . . because it would be more than a post a day, if I tried to cover everything.
Y I K E S.
But in general, the win at JFK8 has been certified by NLRB, and it is only a matter of time before a bargaining order enters -- and forces Amazon to the table.
By my count, across all facilities, there are now almost 50 unfair labor practice charges pending against the company.
And the couple in Clay is an excellent example of Amazon getting bad legal advice (or no legal advice at all!) -- in addressing worker concerns.
Damn. . . onward, to a sunny Fall Friday -- and some taco trucks in the Daley Center Plaza, by the Picasso, at lunch!
Namaste. . . .
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