Amazon accused organizers with the nascent Amazon Labor Union of intimidating workers to vote for the union, a claim an attorney representing the group has called 'patently absurd.'
STATEN ISLAND -- Amazon is seeking to overturn the historic union victory at one of its New York City warehouses, arguing in a legal filing Friday that union organizers and the National Labor Relations Board acted in a way that tainted the results. It now wants to redo the election.
"Amazon is choosing to ignore that, and instead engage in stalling tactics to avoid the inevitable - coming to the bargaining table and negotiating for a contract" on behalf of the workers, he said. In another objection, Amazon targeted organizers' distribution of cannabis to workers, saying the labor board"cannot condone such a practice as a legitimate method of obtaining support for a labor organization." New York legalized the recreational use of marijuana last year for those over 21. Milner, the attorney representing the union, said Amazon is grasping at straws.
"Based on the evidence we've seen so far, as set out in our objections, we believe that the actions of the NLRB and the ALU improperly suppressed and influenced the vote, and we think the election should be conducted again so that a fair and broadly representative vote can be had," Kelly Nantel, an Amazon spokesperson, said in a statement Friday.
"All NLRB enforcement actions against Amazon have been consistent with that Congressional mandate," she said.
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