'We deserve our lives back' — union vote at Albany Amazon warehouse kicks off

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'We deserve our lives back' — union vote at Albany Amazon warehouse kicks off
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The Albany election marks the third vote held at an Amazon warehouse where workers are aiming to join the newly-formed Amazon Labor Union, a group started by current and former workers at Staten Island’s JFK8 warehouse.

on consultants to help the company dissuade union organizing that was afoot on Staten Island as well as in Alabama, where a union drive was ultimately unsuccessful. More recent company filings weren’t available immediately.

Attorneys for the Amazon Labor Union alleged the company’s conduct often breached federal labor laws,Records from the National Labor Relations Board showed attorneys for the Amazon Labor Union have alleged similar anti-union activity in Albany. They’ve filed two dozen unfair labor charges since August for retaliating against union organizers, disciplining them, surveilling them and using coercive language.

Despite the successful drive in March on Staten Island, Amazon is still refusing to begin bargaining with the Amazon Labor Union, and has promised to appeal an administrativeBut at the rally Tuesday, Chaudhry said the union’s efforts were too important to relent. “We, the warehouse workers who generate Amazon Incorporated’s fields of wealth, are waging a peaceful class war for every meal skipped, every sprain, every medical bill unpaid — because we deserve better than the bare minimum or less,” she said. “We deserve our lives back.”

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