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Staten Island Amazon Workers Begin Union Drive, Drawing Lessons From Bessemer
People protest working conditions outside of an Amazon warehouse fulfillment center on May 1, 2020, in the Staten Island borough of New York City. Workers at the facility are beginning an independent union drive.
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In some ways, Amazon workersâ more than yearlong struggle for adequate COVID-19 protections and against corporate retaliation at the companyâs Staten Island facility in New York City helped pave the way for this monthâs unionization attempt at the Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse.
Now, as the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU) seeks a second election through the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), filing official objections Friday charging Amazon with engaging in illegal interference to defeat the union, Staten Island âJFK8â warehouse workers with The Congress of Essential Workers (TCOEW) tell