As Expected, Amazon Has Been Ordered This Week To Begin Bargaining "In Good Faith" At JFK8 -- Since ALU Won The Election, 2-to-1...

This is just a part of a once a month update series, on all matters labor-related at Amazon. Of course, upper-middle management, at Amazon says it will appeal to the full NLRB (this being a regional director's order to bargain) -- so, as ever, this will take a bit. After the full NLRB rules, likely agreeing that a 2-to-1 vote is a clear mandate, Bezos may still appeal the bargaining order, to the federal courts of appeal. Ugh.

But it is clear -- the ultimate future, at Bezos' AMZN... is union. Here's a bit from NPR:

. . .On Wednesday, the National Labor Relations Board's Region 28 regional director, Cornele Overstreet, dismissed Amazon's allegations that labor-board officers and union organizers improperly influenced the union vote. In the spring of last year, the upstart Amazon Labor Union won the right to represent some 8,000 workers at the massive New York warehouse.

Wednesday's decision requires Amazon to begin bargaining "in good faith" with the union. However, the company is expected to appeal the ruling before the full labor board in Washington, D.C., which it can request by Jan. 25. Labor experts say members of the board are likely to side with their regional colleagues in confirming the union's win. The case could make its way into courts. . . .

Amazon alleged that union organizers coerced and misled warehouse workers, and that Brooklyn-based labor officials overseeing the election acted in favor of the union. In September, the NLRB attorney who presided over weeks of hearings on the case recommended that Amazon's objections be rejected in their entirety. . . .

Well -- this is good, if expected, news. . . and yet it may be two years before Bezos hears, from a court of last resort that he must recognize the union and sign a collective bargaining agreement with ALU, at JFK8. Onward, grinning. An equally massive, but not "rogue". . . wave, of another sort -- indeed.

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