{"id":1701856,"date":"2022-10-19T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1701856"},"modified":"2022-10-19T06:04:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T10:04:37","slug":"amazon-workers-vote-overwhelmingly-to-reject-union-bid-in-upstate-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amazon-workers-vote-overwhelmingly-to-reject-union-bid-in-upstate-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Workers Vote Overwhelmingly to Reject Union Bid in Upstate New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famazon-workers-vote-overwhelmingly-to-reject-union-bid-in-upstate-new-york%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1701856&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-amazon\">Amazon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-warehouse\">warehouse<\/a> workers near Albany, New York, voted overwhelmingly against forming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-union\">union<\/a> by almost a 2\u20131 margin, delivering a blow to the fledgling labor movement trying to build momentum at one of America\u2019s biggest employers.<\/p>\n<p>Workers at Amazon\u2019s ALB1 warehouse in the town of Schodack cast 206 votes \u201cfor\u201d and\u00a0406 votes \u201cagainst\u201d joining a local offshoot of the nascent Amazon Labor Union (ALU), according to the National Labor Relations Board.<\/p>\n<p>ALU President Chris Smalls downplayed the defeat, vowing to continue unionization efforts at the facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProud of the brave workers of ALB1 regardless of todays results taking on a trillion-dollar company can never be a loss for workers. We will continue to empower all workers to give them the right to unionize. You miss 100 percent of the shots you don\u2019t take!\u201d Smalls said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shut_downAmazon\/status\/1582359875551911943?s=20&#038;t=wWW3CQHKvuEb4GSxGST5CQ\">statement on social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Smalls alleged in a statement obtained by The Epoch Times that the voting process \u201cwasn\u2019t free and fair\u201d and that it was a \u201csham election,\u201d with Amazon allegedly intimidating workers and threatening them with termination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suits at Amazon corporate know that they can\u2019t win without putting their thumb on the scale,\u201d Smalls said.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon responded to a request for comment by saying the process gave workers a chance to get their point across and that the company looks forward to \u201cdirect\u201d interactions with staff as opposed to through a union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re glad that our team in Albany was able to have their voices heard, and that they chose to keep the direct relationship with Amazon as we think that this is the best arrangement for both our employees and customers,\u201d Kelly Nantel, an Amazon spokesperson, told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will continue to work directly with our teammates in Albany, as we do everywhere, to keep making Amazon better every day,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/10\/18\/Amazon_Union_Election_22287595688090-1200x800.jpg\"><\/a> Amazon workers and supporters march during a rally in Castleton-On-Hudson, about 15 miles south of Albany, N.Y., on Oct. 10, 2022. (Rachel Phua via AP) <\/p>\n<p>The ALU filed 27 charges of illegal conduct on the part of Amazon, including threatening to fire workers who planned to serve as election observers, according to an ALU statement\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/amazon-warehouse-workers-vote-union-setback-us-labor\/story?id=91672991\">obtained by ABC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement obtained by The Epoch Times, the ALU said it was seeking to unionize at the ALB1 facility because \u201cAmazon is a company with deeply rooted issues, and management always prioritizes profits over people\u201d and that the workers deserve a \u201cseat at the table.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amazon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/amazon-workers-in-upstate-new-york-await-results-on-union-vote-11666085403\">told The Wall Street Journal<\/a> that workers at the Schodack warehouse make a base pay of around $17 an hour. Union leaders at the ALB1 facility said that\u2019s not enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want $27, not $17,\u201d the group said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlbUnited\/status\/1575130798554071043?s=20&#038;t=7zr3jKtgsRfMVswdflCtgQ\">post on Twitter<\/a> in late September.<\/p>\n<p>The company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/amazon-boosts-pay-for-frontline-staff-at-cost-of-1-billion_4763980.html\">recently announced<\/a> pay increases for its frontline staff in the United States, for which Amazon has earmarked $1 billion over the next year.\u00a0Amazon also announced more investments in employee career-development programs, bringing the total investment in benefits to nearly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon warehouse workers near Albany, New York, voted overwhelmingly against forming a union by almost a 2\u20131 margin, delivering a blow to the fledgling labor movement trying to build momentum at one of America\u2019s biggest employers. Workers at Amazon\u2019s ALB1 warehouse in the town of Schodack cast 206 votes \u201cfor\u201d and\u00a0406 votes \u201cagainst\u201d joining a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1898753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1701856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1701856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1701856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1701856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1701856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}