Amazon Warehouse Workers Win Historic Union Election

Amazon Warehouse Workers Win Historic Union Election

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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjb54d/amazon-warehouse-workers-win-historic-union-election

Amazon warehouse workers at the company’s JFK8 facility on Staten Island voted in favor of the Amazon Labor Union, an independent union led by former and current workers. This is the first Amazon warehouse in the country to vote to unionize in the company's history. More than 8,000 people work at the JFK8 warehouse. The Amazon Labor Union won the election with 2654 votes for the union and 2131 against.

The Amazon Labor Union―led by former JFK8 supervisor Chris Smalls and current JFK8 worker Derrick Palmer―filed for an election back in October 2021 after more than 2,000 workers signed union authorization cards. The union win is one of the most historic in American labor union history not just because it is the first Amazon warehouse to unionize, but because the Amazon Labor Union is not affiliated with any larger labor union—it is an entirely new entity spun up specifically to unionize these workers.