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Amazon Loses Bid to Overturn Successful Union Campaign by Staten Island Workers

HeadlineSep 06, 2022

In labor news, Amazon has lost its efforts to overturn a historic vote unionizing its JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, New York. Last week, the National Labor Relations Board recommended Amazon’s demands should be rejected, after it failed to prove union organizers had allegedly tampered with the election by intimidating workers. The Staten Island Amazon warehouse workers in April voted decisively in favor of joining the newly formed Amazon Labor Union despite the retail giant’s multimillion-dollar union-busting campaign.

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