“We demand a comprehensive investigation into Amazon’s behavior to spoil this election,” the union said in a statement.
Amazon has struggled with the organizing effort, but denies any interference or misconduct in the election.
“It’s easy to predict that the union will say that Amazon won this election because we intimidated our employees, but that’s not true,” the company wrote in a blog post following the vote. “Our employees received far more anti-Amazon messages from the union, policymakers and media than they heard from us.”
Among other things, the company also offered its minimum wage of $ 15 to argue that a union is not necessary.
Voting spans seven weeks, beginning in February, and the NLRB has spent nearly two weeks voting the ballots, following disputes over unsuitable voters. About 500 of the 3,215 ballots cast during the election were disputed, according to Amazon spokesman, and nearly 400 of the objections were raised by Amazon.
The union at the facility is attracting the attention of Washington, DC, and is putting significant pressure on Biden to give its support to workers exercising their collective bargaining rights.
Biden finally released a 2-minute video in early March supporting the workers – hailed by union leaders as ‘the most pro-union statement by a president’ in history – although he omitted the name of the powerful e-commerce has. giant of his remarks.
The union says that despite the loss in Alabama, it will not stop organizing workers at large retailers like Amazon.
Democrats and national union leaders say the election results show the need for Congress to strengthen federal labor laws, and point to efforts Amazon has used to deter workers from joining the union.
Jennifer Bates, a worker at the Bessemer Fulfillment Center, told lawmakers during a Senate Budget Committee hearing in March that she was expected to attend a trade union education meeting, which sometimes took place several times. week is presented, showing the union messages. She said management had placed “signs and messages against unions” everywhere in the facility and even sent messages to workers’ phones.
Some of the activities will be banned on the basis of a broad labor recovery bill driven by Congress Democrats and Biden.
Business groups are strongly against the legislation and say it will make them less competitive.
The union says it will file unfair labor practice charges with the NLRB to hold Amazon responsible for “illegal” actions it took to overturn the union’s sideline.
“Amazon has left no stone unturned in its efforts to set its own employees on fire,” said Stuart Appelbaum, RWDSU. “Serious and blatantly illegal actions taken by Amazon during the union vote.”