When Graham Brooks received his ballot in early February, asking whether he wanted to form a union at the Amazon warehouse in Alabama where he works, he did not hesitate. He marked the NO box, and mailed the ballot in. After almost six years of working at nearby newspapers, Mr. […]
Category: Labor and Jobs
Union Loss May Bring New Phase of Campaign Against Amazon
“Everywhere they tried, they were defeated,’’ Nelson Lichtenstein, a labor historian at the University of California, Santa Barbara, said of the unions. “Walmart would send teams to swamp the stores to work against a union. They are good at it.” As with Walmart, labor leaders believed it was critical to […]
Amazon Workers Defeat Union Drive at Alabama Warehouse
Amazon beat back the most significant labor drive in its history on Friday, when a tally showed that workers at its giant warehouse in Alabama had voted decisively against forming a union. Workers cast 1,798 votes against a union, giving Amazon enough to emphatically defeat the effort. Ballots in favor […]
Amazon’s Clashes With Labor: Days of Conflict and Control
In recent weeks, a heated discussion about whether Amazon’s workers must urinate in bottles because they have no time to go to the bathroom — a level of control that few modern corporations would dare exercise — has raged on Twitter. “Amazon is reorganizing the very nature of retail work […]