Amazon workers in Alabama will vote by mail in new union election

Ballots can be mailed to employees on Feb. 4.
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A federal labor board stated that Amazon employees in Bessemer, Alabama, will vote by mail subsequent month in a rerun election to resolve whether or not to unionize.

The Nationwide Labor Relations Board stated Tuesday that the ballots can be mailed out Feb. 4 and have to be returned earlier than the counting begins on March 28.

The transfer comes roughly a month and a half after the board ordered a brand new union election for Amazon employees primarily based on objections by the Retail, Wholesale and Division Retailer Union to the primary vote that passed off in April.

The transfer was a blow to Amazon, which spent a few yr aggressively campaigning for warehouse employees in Bessemer to reject the union, which they finally did by a large margin.

In a 20-page choice, the regional director for the NLRB, Lisa Henderson, targeted a lot consideration on Amazon’s set up of a US Postal Service mailbox on the major worker entrance, which can have created the misunderstanding that the corporate was the one conducting the election course of. Henderson additionally rejected Amazon’s argument that it was making voting simpler and was making an attempt to encourage as excessive a turnout as potential.

Union supporters, like this employee campaigning exterior the Amazon BHM1 achievement heart in Bessemer, Alabama, may have till late March to forged their votes.

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