Amazon Is Playing Dirty to Stop a Second Warehouse From Unionizing
In a massive victory, Amazon workers recently won a union at a warehouse in New York. So now the company is trying every trick in the union-busting playbook to throttle worker organizing at a second facility.
Amazon Labor Union organizers at the LDJ5 Amazon sorting facility on Staten Island, New York, which has a unionization election beginning April 25, 2022. (Amazon Labor Union / Twitter)
The company has billed itself as the everything store. Now Amazon is the throw-everything-at-them union buster — trying every trick in the playbook to throttle worker organizing at its Staten Island warehouses in New York City.
The union vote at a second warehouse, a neighboring sorting center known as LDJ5, is set to start April 25, so the company has turned its focus there.
“All those union busters that were there to union-bust eight thousand workers at JFK8 have walked across the street and are in our little building of 1,600 people,” a visibly shaken Madeline Wesley, who works at LDJ5, told reporters at a press conference last week. “They’re really fighting us, and they’re playing really dirty.”
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