File: The Amazon Distribution Center in Garner, NC, was opened in August 2020. The warehouse comprises 2 million square foot on four floors.
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Amazon The workers in a facility near Raleigh, North Carolina, mostly voted against the union on Saturday.
According to the National Labor Relations Board, there were 2,447 votes against the Union and 829, according to the National Labor Relations Board. There were 77 challenged ballot papers, a gap that is too tight to change the result of the choice. The results still have to be certified by the NLRB.
The organizers found the election in the facility named RDU1 and in the suburb of Garner with the start of Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment (Cause) in the warehouse in the past three years. The facility employs around 4,700 employees.
In an explanation, Cause said that the election results were a “result of Amazon's willingness to break the law”.
“Amazon's tireless and illegal efforts to intimidate us prove that this company is afraid that employees will come together to claim our power,” said the group. “Amazon may think that it is above the law, but we will not accept a system that enables billionaires and companies to play according to a different series of rules.”
Eileen Hards, spokeswoman for Amazon, denied that the company had broken the law or impaired the election.
“We are glad that our team in Garner could hear their voices and that they decided to have a direct relationship with Amazon,” said Hards in an explanation. “We look forward to making this a great place to work together and supporting our teammates if you build your future with us.”
Amazon, the country's second largest private employer, has long tried to keep the unions out of the ranks. The strategy was successful in the United States until 2022 when the workers voted in a warehouse in Staten Island for the Amazon Union. Last month, workers voted in a Whole Foods Store in Philadelphia for the United Food and Commercial Workers Union.
Amazon replied to the Garner Union Drive with a flood of anti-union messages in the warehouse, on a website and sent to the employees via his atoz app. A head of the warehouse asked the employees to “choose no” and says that a union “can stand in the way of our cooperation”. The company described the matter as a “external party” that “claims to be a union”.
Amazon has previously announced that his employees can decide whether they should join a union or not, and that they speak “openly, openly and respectfully about these topics” so that they can “make a well -founded decision”.
The cause was founded in 2022 by the RDU1 Mary Hill and Rev. Ryan Brown employees in 2022 to express concerns about the company's reaction to the Covid pandemic, which they considered inadequate. The group tried to organize RDU1 to increase wages and secure longer breaks.
The start content at RDU1 is $ 18.50 per hour. The matter has urged to negotiate wages of $ 30 per hour.
In his explanation on Saturday, Cause said that it was intended to continue to organize RDU1 “because more than half of Amazon employees still have to deal with food and uncertainty”.
Working groups have calculated beyond NLRB elections to gain a union at Amazon. They supported the employees in the submission of unfair charges for working practice at the NLRB against Amazon and accused the company of violating labor laws.
The Teamsters International Brotherhood helped Nine Amazon facilities in December. Amazon said the strike had no influence on its company.
The Teamsters Union has announced that it would represent 9,000 Amazona workers across the country, although the company has refused to recognize the union and the action with leadership.
The unions have increasingly supported all over the country, and according to Gallup, 67% of the Americans stated that unions. However, this did not lead to higher member rates. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, union membership in the private sector declined slightly to 5.9% in 2024.
North Carolina had the lowest membership rate of the union in the country last year, and according to BLS, only 2.4% of employees were represented in the state.
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