Workers in Staten Island voted to join the Amazon Labor Union, the company appealed the result. A federal labor official presided over weeks of hearings and is now recommending that Amazon's objections be rejected and that the union should be certified.
group known as the Amazon Labor Union. The group is run by current and former workers of the warehouse, known as JFK8.
The union now has its sights on another New York warehouse: Workers at an Amazon facility near Albany have gathered enough signatures to petition the National Labor Relations Board for their own election. However, Amazon has objected to the union's victory, accusing the NLRB's regional office in Brooklyn – which oversaw the election – of acting in favor of the Amazon Labor Union.
In the spring, two previous elections failed to form unions at two other Amazon warehouses. Workers at another, smaller Staten Island warehouse