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Amazon workers arrive with papers for union action at the NLRB office in Brooklyn, New York, October 25, 2021.
Brendan McDiarmid | Reuters
The National Employment Relations Board said Tuesday that it found merit in bringing the charges Amazon He broke labor law by refusing to bargain with a fledgling union representing employees at one of its New York warehouses.
In an order issued by a regional director in the NLRB’s Brooklyn office, the agency said it is seeking damages, including requiring Amazon to “bargain in good faith” with the Amazon Workers Union, and to make the entire Bargaining Unit staff for the lost opportunity. To negotiate at the time and in the manner in which they are entitled to do so under the National Labor Law.
Workers at one of the retail giant’s Staten Island warehouses, known as JFK8, voted last April to join the Amazon Workers Union, a grassroots organization started by current and former employees. Since that win, the group has been fighting to reach a contract with Amazon, and the battle has spilled over into the courts, as the company continues to challenge the results, as well as the NLRB and the union’s conduct during the election. The agency endorsed the election results in January.
The ALU has urged Amazon to begin contract talks several times since last April, but the company has routinely refused, in order to “test union certification as an exclusive collective bargaining representative” for employees, the agency said in its order.
Amazon representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The NLRB’s complaint comes as the ALU has faced setbacks since its historic victory in Staten Island. alu Lost two elections In other Amazon warehouses last year, disagreements arose between some leaders and union members. On Monday, a group of former ALU members File a lawsuit against the union, accusing it of violating the ALU’s constitution and asking a Brooklyn court to force it to hold elections for union officers. ACLU lawyers told the group, called the Caucus for Democratic Reform, that the lawsuit was frivolous and false, according to New York times.
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