The firm founded by Jeff Bezos is currently the second largest employer in the North American country.
This Tuesday the National Labor Relations Board (NRLB, in English) of the United States set for February 4 the start date of the voting for the creation of a union in an Amazon warehouse in the state of Alabama, which would be the first of employees of this company in the country.
The United States labor regulation authority allowed a second election in the Amazon warehouse in the town of Bessemer, in that southern state of the country, after the lawsuit filed against the company for “interference and interference” in the previous vote by the company.
The workers had denounced “intimidation and interference” by the e-commerce giant in the 2021 elections, in which the proposal to create a union lost at the polls by a large majority.
Now workers will have, a year later, a second chance to vote after the result of the first consultation held in March 2021 showed that two out of three voters rejected the union’s constitution.
The firm founded by Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world according to Forbes magazine, is the second largest employer in the United States, only behind the supermarket chain Walmart, and since the beginning of the pandemic it has skyrocketed both its activity and its benefits and has hired tens of thousands of new workers.
However, the company does not have a labor union in the country and is known for its strong opposition to the organizing efforts of its employees, something that it displayed on several occasions throughout the past campaign in the Alabama warehouse. (I)
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