{"id":4751,"date":"2022-02-15T09:37:43","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T08:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/15\/us-amazon-warehouse-workers-prepare-for-historic-union-vote\/"},"modified":"2022-02-15T09:37:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T08:37:43","slug":"us-amazon-warehouse-workers-prepare-for-historic-union-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/15\/us-amazon-warehouse-workers-prepare-for-historic-union-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"US Amazon warehouse workers prepare for historic union vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labor board overturned first election over company\u2019s unfair conduct, giving workers another chance to be the first Amazon facility in US to unionize<\/p>\n<p>Workers at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, have begun the rerun of a historic union election after the US labor regulator ruled Amazon\u2019s conduct had interfered with a previous election in 2021 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/amazon-alabama-facility-ordered-re-run-union-election-us-labor-board-2021-11-29\/\">ordered<\/a> a new vote.<\/p>\n<p>The union drive comes as other large US employers including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2022\/feb\/11\/starbucks-union-organizing-drives-across-us\">Starbucks<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/feb\/10\/target-directs-managers-prevent-workers-from-unionizing\">Target <\/a>are fighting off union drives. If successful, the warehouse would be the first Amazon facility to unionize in the US. Employees said that Amazon \u2013 which now employs more than 1 million people in the US \u2013 is fighting hard to make sure this vote also fails, but some are feeling more confident the second time around.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/feb\/15\/amazon-union-vote-workers-prepare\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/91eb01d85193d5ddd5412062c341789d53c4f423\/0_80_2000_1200\/master\/2000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=bfed74084d300c733c744c06e47baae6\" title=\"US Amazon warehouse workers prepare for historic union vote\" \/>Labor board overturned first election over company\u2019s unfair conduct, giving workers another chance to be the first Amazon facility in US to unionize<br \/>\nWorkers at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, have begun the rerun of a historic union election after the US labor regulator ruled Amazon\u2019s conduct had interfered with a previous election in 2021 and ordered a new vote.<br \/>\nThe union drive comes as other large US employers including Starbucks and Target are fighting off union drives. If successful, the warehouse would be the first Amazon facility to unionize in the US. Employees said that Amazon \u2013 which now employs more than 1 million people in the US \u2013 is fighting hard to make sure this vote also fails, but some are feeling more confident the second time around. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labor board overturned first election over company\u2019s unfair conduct, giving workers another chance to be the first Amazon facility in US to unionize Workers at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, have begun the rerun of a historic union election after the US labor regulator ruled Amazon\u2019s conduct had interfered with a previous election in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/15\/us-amazon-warehouse-workers-prepare-for-historic-union-vote\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US Amazon warehouse workers prepare for historic union vote<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}