Enlarge / An Amazon warehouse in Germany on April 2, 2020. (credit: Patrick Pleul | picture alliance | Getty Images )
A regional official at the National Labor Relations Board has called for a new union election at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama, fulfillment center following recommendations issued in August by a hearing officer. The Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU), which seeks to represent workers in the Bessemer warehouse, filed 23 objections disputing the fairness of the election shortly after votes were tallied back within April.
No date offers been set for the new election, and Amazon could still appeal the decision to the particular full National Labor Relations Board.
The decision to call a new election hinges primarily on a mailbox that Amazon installed inside the warehouse’s parking lot to collect ballots. According to typically the NLRB’s report ( PDF ), the mailbox was installed without the approval of the NRLB, creating this impression that the box was being surveilled and that Amazon, not the NLRB, was conducting often the election. Amazon also installed the tent over the mailbox with Amazon’s anti-union campaign messaging “printed on at least one side, ” and the company conducted “mandatory small group meetings” where it provided anti-union campaign materials to employees.
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