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Hallelujah Hadero { . Another warehouse filed a petition for an election in upstate New York on Tuesday, hoping for results from .
A spokesperson for the National Labor Relations Board said a petition was filed against a warehouse known as He ALB1 in the town of Shodak, about 10 miles (16.09 km) southeast of Albany. rice field.
To be eligible for union elections, the NLRB requires the signatures of his 30% of voters at certain establishments. Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the number of employees at its Schodack location.
Heather Goodall, a warehouse worker and former insurance agent who is leading the organizing effort, said in an interview earlier this month that workers should be encouraged by the union's plea. I had enough support to submit the petition, but chose to postpone it in order to gather more signatures. On Tuesday, she said the group's lawyers were not ready to release information to the public about the number of signatures collected. You should check if you are eligible. If the agency approves, it will coordinate the date and time of an election between the Amazon union and the Amazon union that won a union victory in Staten Island, N.Y. in April.
Former warehouse workers and now The union, made up of warehouse workers from around the world, began supporting organizing efforts in upstate New York after being approached by Goodall to join Amazon in February and investigate the company's working conditions. . She soon began talking to her colleagues about organizing, and in May she launched a union campaign with other workers' groups.
Shortly thereafter, Goodall said he met with Teamster and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Stores Union (RWDSU). Alabama, whose results are still in dispute.
She ultimately decided to pursue a more grassroots approach and work with the ALU, based on the belief that the organization understood the company better than other established unions. The organizers said they had decided.
"It seemed logical that we would continue to work directly with them and build Amazon unions nationwide," Goodall said.
} A labor victory in the Shodak essentially expands ALU support within Amazon and turns it into a point of contact for labor issues beyond Staten Island. It also reportedly stopped organizing at two other nearby facilities, potentially reviving enthusiasm that began to wane after losing a group at a second Staten Island warehouse in May.
At the same time, the ALU is defending its sole victory against Amazon, which contested over 20 challenges to its election. Lawyers for both sides tried to discredit the other's claims in her week-long NLRB hearings, which ended in mid-July. A ruling on this matter is expected in the coming weeks.
Meanwhile, dozens of her TikTok creators have pledged to stop doing business with Amazon until they meet union demands, including a $30 an hour minimum wage and longer breaks. On Tuesday, the nonprofit Gen-Z for Change announced a campaign backed by nearly 70 content creators. They say they will refuse to monetize Amazon's platform unless "concrete changes" are made to improve working conditions.
"Amazon's widespread abuse of its employees and blatant use of union-busting tactics will no longer be tolerated by the TikTok community or his TikTok creator," the group said. According to a letter he shared on Twitter.
Amazon did not immediately respond to requests for comment on campaign or election documents filed on Tuesday.
The company's warehouses in states such as Kentucky and North Carolina have Other campaigns are underway to collect enough signatures for workers to petition for their own elections. Among other things, upstate New York workers want better training and higher wages at the company's warehouses.
"We have employees who can't even go to work because they can't afford gas," Goodall said. "They can't afford to fix their cars, they can't afford to feed their families."
The petition comes amid extensive scrutiny of Amazon and its nationwide warehouse operations. was broken On Monday, dozens of workers at the company's aviation hub in San Bernardino, Calif., quit their jobs in protest at low wages and safety from the heat.
Federal authorities are also more involved. Last month, OSHA inspected Amazon facilities in several states after receiving referrals for health and safety violations. The Civil Affairs Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York is also investigating safety issues at Amazon's warehouses and what an agency spokesperson called "fraud designed to conceal injuries from OSHA and others." increase.