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Amazon workers in Alabama will vote again on forming a union after the US labor board invalidates election results

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The National Labor Relations Board has ordered a new union election for Amazon employees at the company’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, finding that Amazon …
The National Labor Relations Board has ordered a new union election for Amazon employees at the company’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, finding that Amazon illegally influenced the results of the first election. Amazon employees voted in April not to form a union, but the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, under which they would have unionized, challenged the election, accusing Amazon of unfair labor practices. In a decision issued Monday, the NLRB sided with the RWDSU, concluding that Amazon did violate labor laws by installing a mailbox outside its warehouse and trying to gauge employees’ support for the union in mandatory meetings. Amazon’s “flagrant disregard” for the NLRB’s standard mail-ballot voting process “compromised the authority of the Board and made a free and fair election impossible,” Lisa Henderson, the NLRB regional director for Region 10, which includes Bessemer, wrote in the ruling. Henderson’s decision said that the NLRB will hold a second election, though Amazon first has the right to request a review of the ruling. If a second election is held, workers employed during the last payroll before the election is announced — including those who were on strike, sick, on vacation, or temporarily laid off — will have the chance to re-vote.

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