Amazon tries to delay warehouse union vote in Alabama


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Amazon is attempting to delay a union vote in Bessemer, Alabama, interesting a US labor board choice to permit 6,000 warehouse staff to vote by mail on unionization. The corporate is arguing for the election to be held in particular person, in response to paperwork filed with the Nationwide Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Thursday.

Amazon’s argument is that mail-in voting decreases voter turnout. It says the NLRB appeared on the flawed COVID-19 an infection knowledge when figuring out find out how to maintain the vote, utilizing the positivity fee in Jefferson County, the place the warehouse is positioned, fairly than the positivity fee on the warehouse itself.

Employees in Bessemer are set to vote on whether or not to unionize with the Retail, Wholesale, and Division Retailer Union beginning on…

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