#Amazon workers make harder push in second bid to organize Alabama

#Amazon workers make harder push in second bid to organize Alabama

“#Amazon workers make harder push in second bid to organize Alabama” Amazon workers and organizers in Bessemer, Alabama, are making door-to-door house calls, sporting pro-union T-shirts and challenging anti-union messaging by Amazon-hired consultants as they try to convince their peers for the second time to unionize their warehouse in an election that starts Friday by…

Read More
#New York Times pressured workers to reject union: report

#New York Times pressured workers to reject union: report

“#New York Times pressured workers to reject union: report” Senior executives at The New York Times urged some 600 tech employees to vote against forming a union, warning them that it was an “unproven experiment with permanent consequences,” according to a report. Internal memos and Slack messages obtained by the Guardian detail the extent to…

Read More
#Amazon settles with NLRB to give workers power to unionize

#Amazon settles with NLRB to give workers power to unionize

“#Amazon settles with NLRB to give workers power to unionize” Amazon, under pressure to improve worker rights, has reached a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board to allow its workers to freely organize — and without retaliation. According to the agreement, the online behemoth said it would reach out to its warehouse workers —…

Read More
#Amazon workers in Staten Island walk out during holiday rush

#Amazon workers in Staten Island walk out during holiday rush

“#Amazon workers in Staten Island walk out during holiday rush” Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island revived their push for union representation and staged a walkout on Wednesday in protest of what they said are unfair labor practices during the breakneck holiday shipping rush.  Workers at four Staten Island facilites staged a “lunchtime walkout,” slamming…

Read More
#Amazon workers in Alabama will get another chance to unionize

#Amazon workers in Alabama will get another chance to unionize

“#Amazon workers in Alabama will get another chance to unionize” US regulators have ordered Amazon to submit to a new vote on whether to unionize an Alabama warehouse, ruling that the Seattle-based giant had improperly interfered in a hotly contested election this spring. A regional director of the National Relations Labor Board, Lisa Henderson, ordered…

Read More