In total, 2,654 members of the e-commerce giant’s workforce were in favor of organizing, compared to 2,131 who were against in the vote
“Amazon has chosen to ignore this and engage in delaying tactics to avoid the inevitable: sitting down at the negotiating table and negotiating a contract,” Milner added.
As Amazon spokeswoman Kelly Nantel wrote, in statements sent to EFE, the company has always insisted that the voices of its employees be heard: “But that has not happened, because less than a third of the employees of the facilities voted in favor of the union and, in total, the turnout was unusually low.
“Based on the evidence we have seen so far and as set forth in our objections, we believe that the actions of the National Labor Relations Board (which is charged with organizing the vote) and the ALU improperly suppressed and influenced the vote,” he added.
The spokeswoman also insisted that the company defends a repetition of the vote “so that it is fair and there can be a broadly representative vote.”
Amazon is the second largest employer in the United States, only behind the Walmart supermarket chain, and since the start of the pandemic it has skyrocketed both its activity and its profits and has hired tens of thousands of new workers.
The outbreak of the pandemic in 2020 spurred the spirits of many Amazon workers and other large companies in the country, such as the Starbucks coffee chain, in the United States, who denounced that their employers did not take the necessary measures to protect them from Covid-19.