{"id":121187,"date":"2022-04-06T14:54:20","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T14:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/2022\/04\/06\/david-beats-goliath-workers-in-new-york-vote-to-form-amazons-first-ever-union-in-us\/"},"modified":"2022-04-06T14:54:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T14:54:20","slug":"david-beats-goliath-workers-in-new-york-vote-to-form-amazons-first-ever-union-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/david-beats-goliath-workers-in-new-york-vote-to-form-amazons-first-ever-union-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;David Beats Goliath&#8217;: Workers in New York Vote to Form Amazon&#8217;s First-Ever Union in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>&#8220;We want to thank Jeff Bezos for going to space, because when he was up there, we were signing people up,&#8221; said Christian Smalls, president of the Amazon Labor Union.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Amazon warehouse workers in<\/strong> Staten Island, New York won their election Friday to form the retail giant&#8217;s first-ever union in the United States, a landmark victory for the labor movement in the face of aggressive union-busting efforts from one of the world&#8217;s most powerful companies.<\/p>\n<p>According to an initial tally released by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB),<em> <\/em>there were 2,654 votes in favor of recognizing a union and 2,131 against. The number of disputed ballots, 67, is not nearly enough to change the outcome.<\/p>\n<p>The historic unionization drive at the JFK8 fulfillment center was spearheaded by the Amazon Labor Union (ALU), a worker-led group <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ceodonovan\/status\/1509637587123650573\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not affiliated<\/a> with any established union. Christian Smalls, the president of ALU, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2020\/03\/31\/new-york-ag-denounces-immoral-and-inhumane-firing-amazon-worker-who-led-protest-over\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fired<\/a> by Amazon in 2020 after he led a protest against the company&#8217;s poor workplace safety standards in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When Covid-19 came into play, Amazon failed us,&#8221; Smalls <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StatusCoup\/status\/1509934864379822085\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> during a press conference after the union victory was announced. &#8220;We want to thank Jeff Bezos for going to space, because when he was up there, we were signing people up.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island, New York won their election Friday to form the retail giant&#8217;s first-ever union in the United States, a landmark victory for the labor movement in the face of aggressive union-busting efforts from one of the world&#8217;s most powerful companies.According to an initial tally released by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), there were 2,654 votes in favor of recognizing a union and 2,131 against. 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