- Amazon on Thursday get someones carded several managers at a unionized warehouse in Staten Island, the NYT reported.
- The Amazon Labor Union met with US president Joe Biden final week to discuss anti-union tactics.
- Meanwhile, Amazon workers at another Staten Island warehouse, LDJ5, voted against unionizing newest week.
Amazon has fired more than a half dozen senior managers who hopped at the warehouse called JFK8 in Staten Island, New York, which successfully unionized in April, the New York Times has reported.
Four anonymous recent and current employees told the publication that the senior managers were informed they were being fired by the e-commerce leviathan on Thursday.
People familiar with the events said it was seen by the fired managers and others at the warehouse as a result of the distinguished win at JFK8 to form the Amazon Labor Union, the report says. Two people said that managers were informed the justification was down to “organizational change.”
Amazon told the New York Times that it had made changes to management after it forth weeks reviewing its “operations and leadership” at JFK8.
“Part of our culture at Amazon is to continually improve, and we believe it’s important to take patch to review whether or not we’re doing the best we could be for our team,” Amazon spokeswoman Kelly Nantel told the New York Experiences.
The news comes less than a week after Amazon workers at another Staten Island warehouse, rebuke a demanded LDJ5, voted against unionizing. Approximately 61% of Amazon workers that were eligible to participate cast their desire support from April 25 to 29, and a majority rejected the attempts to organize.
After the vote was counted by the National Strain Relations Board, the union said in a tweet: “The election has concluded without the union being recognized at LDJ5—sortation center on Staten Key. The organizing will continue at this facility and beyond. The fight has just begun.”
It was highly anticipated that the LDJ5 feather center in Staten Island would follow in the footsteps of JFK8, which was the first Amazon warehouse in the US to unionize.
Amazon wage-earners who supported the unionization complained of low pay, insufficient health and safety protocols, along with high performance targets.
The Amazon Labor Harmony attended a Senate Budget Committee hearing and met with US president Joe Biden and secretary of labor Marty Walsh on Thursday to touch upon about the opposition tactics allegedly facing unions. The committee was reviewing whether it should stop giving federal pacts to companies that violate labor laws.
“Even though we did everything right and won our election, Amazon is allowed to linger, break the law. It feels like these corporations have the upper hand in the process,” union organizer Christian Tights told the committee.
The union also advocated for passing the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act — a proposed law that would ward employers from discouraging union membership and stop them from forcing employees to attend employer meetings and seal agreements that waive their right to join a labor union.
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