Here in New York, Amazon workers at a second Staten Island warehouse have voted against forming a union. There were 380 votes in favor with over 600 opposed. This comes a month after an adjacent Amazon warehouse in Staten Island successfully formed Amazon’s first union in the United States. Organizers vowed to keep fighting. This is Derrick Palmer, Amazon Labor Union’s vice president of organizing.

Derrick Palmer: “We’ve been organizing and campaigning for a long time, put in a lot of work. So, you know, we shouldn’t be discouraged at all. You know, we have other buildings. We have over 100 buildings throughout the U.S. that want to organize, and they want to unionize. You know, we already set the tone with JFK. So, we’ve just got to continue. That’s all it’s about.”

Click here to see our interview with Derrick Palmer and Christian Smalls. Eric Milner, an attorney representing the Amazon Labor Union, accused Amazon of illegal union-busting tactics and promised to appeal the election’s results to the National Labor Relations Board.

Eric Milner: “Unfortunately, Amazon really stepped up the pressure here in the last couple of weeks. They engaged in a lot of unlawful behavior, just constant coercive meetings with employees. They disciplined the organizers. They disciplined other workers for engaging in coercive activity. And they really made it as difficult as possible.”