{"id":223779,"date":"2021-04-09T16:02:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T13:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/about-500-challenged-ballots-at-stake-in-amazon-union-vote-report\/"},"modified":"2021-04-09T16:02:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T13:02:29","slug":"about-500-challenged-ballots-at-stake-in-amazon-union-vote-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/about-500-challenged-ballots-at-stake-in-amazon-union-vote-report\/","title":{"rendered":"#About 500 challenged ballots at stake in Amazon union vote: report"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#About 500 challenged ballots at stake in Amazon union vote: report<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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About 500 of the ballots cast in Amazon\u2019s landmark union election were challenged before the e-commerce titan\u00a0took a commanding lead, the labor group involved in the push said.<\/p>\n

The challenged ballots could make a difference if the number of votes in favor of unionizing Amazon\u2019s Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse catches up with the number of votes against when counting resumes Friday,\u00a0according to Reuters,<\/a>\u00a0which first reported the figure.<\/p>\n

Amazon and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union challenged the ballots in a private process before the National Labor Relations Board began the public count Thursday afternoon, the news<\/a> agency reported.<\/p>\n

RWDSU spokesperson\u00a0Chelsea Connor confirmed the number of challenged ballots, saying Amazon contested votes \u201cat a rate of nearly 4 to 1.\u201d The NLRB also made some challenges, she said.<\/p>\n

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Michael Foster of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union encourages voters at the Amazon facility in Bessemer, Alabama.<\/figcaption>
AP\/Jay Reeves<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The board will reportedly adjudicate the challenged ballots \u2014 which account for roughly 15 percent of the 3,215 votes cast \u2014 if they\u2019re needed to determine the election\u2019s outcome.<\/p>\n

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Jeff Bezos is the CEO of Amazon.<\/figcaption>
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Amazon\u2019s large lead so far makes it unclear whether they\u2019ll be necessary. The NLRB had counted 1,100 votes against unionization by the time counting stopped Thursday, compared to just 463 votes in favor.<\/p>\n

Parties to a union vote can challenge ballots that they suspect came from an ineligible voter or were tampered with, among other reasons, the news agency reports.<\/p>\n

An NLRB spokesperson said the agency could not release the number of challenged ballots or the total number of votes cast until the end of the count. Amazon did not immedia<\/a>tely respond to a request for comment early Friday.<\/p>\n

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Union leaders are joined by community group representatives, elected officials and social activists for a rally in support of unionization efforts by Amazon workers in the state of Alabama.<\/figcaption>
FREDERIC J. BROWN\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The vote count is slated to resume Friday morning in a closely watched election that could bring the first union to an Amazon warehouse in the United States.<\/p>\n

Amazon has fought tooth and nail against the union push while labor activists and political figures such as President Biden have thrown their support behind the effort.<\/p>\n

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An Amazon-sponsored billboard urging employees to return their unionization ballots is stands in Bessemer, Alabama.<\/figcaption>
Elijah Nouvelage\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The RWDSU pledged to continue the fight Thursday while acknowledging it was likely to lose the vote. <\/p>\n

Citing emails<\/a> among federal employees, the union has reportedly accused Amazon of pushing the US Postal Service to place a mailbox outside the Bessemer facility \u2014 a move that could lead workers to think the company had a role in collecting their ballots.<\/p>\n

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People in Los Angeles, California, protest in support of the unionizing efforts of the Alabama Amazon workers.<\/figcaption>
REUTERS\/Lucy Nicholson<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cOur system is broken,\u201d RWDSU president Stuart App<\/a>elbaum told the Washington Post. \u201cAmazon took full advantage of that, and we will be calling on the labor board to hold Amazon accountable for its illegal and egregious behavior during the campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Post wires<\/em>\n <\/div>\n