- The NLRB counted 3,215 votes in the historic union vote of Amazon employees in Bessemer, Alabama.
- RWDSU, the union that will unite employees, said Amazon had challenged hundreds of ballots.
- The counting of public votes could start as early as Thursday, the RWDSU said in a statement.
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A total of 3,215 employees at Amazon’s fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, voted in a careful vote on whether they want to unite, according to a press release from the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.
The warehouse has more than 5,800 employees, meaning about 55% of employees voted.
The RWDSU, which would unite Amazon’s warehouse workers, said the National Labor Relations Board had cleared all undisputed ballots, but that there were “hundreds of challenged ballots”, most of which were challenged by Amazon and that “more issues could have the final effect on the final results. “
The NLRB is likely to begin public voting on Thursday afternoon or Friday morning Eastern Time, according to the RWDSU.
Amazon did not respond to a request for comment on this story.
In the controversial vote on the union, Amazon has repeatedly challenged aspects of the voting process to the NLRB, which would install the company’s request to install cameras that monitor the ballot box in Birmingham’s office in the NLRB.
Union organizers also complained about Amazon’s tactics, which allegedly included calling local police to monitor organizers and asking for traffic lights near the warehouse to be reconfigured to reduce the amount of time organizers have to talk to employees who run the facility. enter and leave, to limit.