{"id":433567,"date":"2021-04-20T09:35:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T13:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=433567"},"modified":"2021-04-20T09:35:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T13:35:58","slug":"union-claims-amazon-illegally-meddled-in-alabama-warehouse-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/union-claims-amazon-illegally-meddled-in-alabama-warehouse-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Claims Amazon Illegally Meddled in Alabama Warehouse Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Funion-claims-amazon-illegally-meddled-in-alabama-warehouse-election%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=433567&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-594.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The union behind an unsuccessful attempt to organize Amazon workers in Alabama claims the retail giant illegally meddled in this month&#8217;s union vote and has petitioned to have the election results invalidated.<\/p>\n<p>In a petition to the National Labor Relations Board, the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU) claimed Friday that Amazon told workers the warehouse would be closed if they unionized and that it disciplined workers for organizing. The complaint lists 23 total violations of labor law by Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>The unionization effort earned national <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/bezos-beats-dem-backed-union-effort-in-alabama\/\">attention<\/a>, since workers at the Bessemer, Ala., warehouse would have been the first unionized Amazon employees. Democratic politicians, as well as some Republicans, used the effort to criticize Amazon for its outsized market power. Amazon has <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/democrats-descend-into-twitter-war-with-amazon\/\">sparred<\/a> with politicians on social media and lobbies heavily on the Hill, prompting concerns it is unaccountable to political pressure.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint highlights the lengths Amazon went to in order to restrict support for the union. The RWDSU alleges Amazon &#8220;sent multiple messages to workers unlawfully threatening loss of business&#8221; at the facility if they supported the union. Amazon also allegedly held mandatory anti-union meetings, in which workers who asked questions about the union were removed.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon\u2019s anti-union work extended beyond the workplace, according to the complaint. The company hired police officers to patrol the parking lot and observe union organizers, it says. And according to the union, Amazon successfully lobbied local officials to change the duration of a traffic light outside the warehouse, so organizers would have less time to talk to workers after work hours.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Amazon has left no stone unturned in its efforts to gaslight its own employees,&#8221; said RWDSU president Stuart Appelbaum. In response, an Amazon spokesperson said, &#8220;Rather than accepting these employees\u2019 choice, the union seems determined to continue misrepresenting the facts in order to drive its own agenda.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amazon has faced criticism in recent months for its editorial and business decisions. The retailer <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/amazon-now-bans-books-that-treat-gender-dysphoria-as-mental-illness\/\">banned<\/a> a bestselling book on transgender issues in March and made <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/policy-changes-drive-orthodox-jews-from-amazon\/\">changes<\/a> to requirements for small sellers that drove many Orthodox Jews from the platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The union behind an unsuccessful attempt to organize Amazon workers in Alabama claims the retail giant illegally meddled in this month&#8217;s union vote and has petitioned to have the election &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276180,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-594.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Union Claims Amazon Illegally Meddled in Alabama Warehouse Election","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-594.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Union Claims Amazon Illegally Meddled in Alabama Warehouse Election","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433567","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=433567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}