A National Labor Relations Board officer has recommended that the NLRB’s regional director negate the results of the April vote and order a second election
A demonstrator in Manhattan supports the unionizing Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama in February. Photo: LightRocket via Getty Images On Monday, a hearing officer for the National Labor Relations Board found that Amazon violated U.S. labor law during the recent unionization drive at the company’s plant in Bessemer, Alabama. As a result, the officer is recommending that the NLRB’s regional director negate the results of the earlier vote and order a second election.
The vote at the Bessemer plant that ended in April was one of the most high-profile drives in recent years, with Bernie Sanders, Stacey Abrams, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez publicly supporting the nascent chapter of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. Workers ultimately rejected a plan to unionize by a more than a two-to-one margin.
A major controversy was over a new mailbox in the warehouse’s private parking lot which Amazon says was installed by the U.S. Postal Service to make voting “convenient, safe and private.” But the mailbox placement inside an Amazon tent right by the workplace prompted many workers to wonder whether the company was trying to monitor the vote.“Amazon [facility] is surveilled everywhere,” Emmit Ashford, a pro-union worker from the Bessemer warehouse, testified at NLRB’s hearing in May.
The National Labor Relations Board hearing officer who reviewed the complaint filed in April ultimately agreed with the union. The recommendation for a new vote will now be reviewed by the NLRB regional direction in Atlanta, who will issue a ruling.
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