Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) workers at a North Carolina warehouse voted against unionization, delivering a significant victory for the retail giant known for opposing organized labor. The National Labor Relations Board
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She loads up her van with packages for over 200 homes, many of them mansions in the hills of West Covina with steep steps and long driveways. But on the morning of December 19, Valdez didn’t head to her blue Amazon van as usual.
The outcome was a setback for workers trying to score a second election success at an Amazon facility. The union vowed to keep trying to organize.
North Carolina has the lowest union membership in the nation. A group of Amazon workers and organizers sought to buck that at a Garner warehouse, but were defeated.
Workers at an Amazon warehouse in North Carolina rejected a proposal to unionize, becoming the latest group of the company’s employees to side against union representation.
Amazon workers at a warehouse in North Carolina voted against forming a union, another setback in the movement’s efforts against a company and state that is generally hostile to organizing.
the National Labor Relations Board announced Saturday. The federal labor agency said 2,447 workers cast ballots against union representation while 829 voted in favor of joining the independent union, which is made up of former and current Amazon workers.
The results, 829 in favor of unionizing and 2,447 opposed, came after a three-year effort by Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity & Empowerment (CAUSE), the organization hoping to represent the Amazon employees.
It was the second such vote Amazon faced in as many months, after a majority of workers at a Philadelphia Whole Foods location opted to join a union, the first at the grocery chain.
An upstart union in North Carolina alleged Amazon interfered with the vote counting process on Saturday at a warehouse near Raleigh.
In a vote last week, employees at an Amazon warehouse in Garner, N.C. voted 2,447 to 829 against joining an employee-led union.