Labor organizers, lawmakers push for union to protect State Fair site Amazon workers
Lawmakers push for union to protect workers at Amazon facility coming to Detroit
Lawmakers are pushing for a union to protect employees who will work at the Amazon facility at the old State Fair grounds.
DETROIT (FOX 2) - A new Amazon fulfillment center is being built at the old State Fair Grounds in Detroit.
Labor organizers and lawmakers are pushing for workers to be able to unionize at the facility.
For Amazon to be a good corporate citizen it knows what it needs to do, said Adam Obernauer, the director of Retail Organizing Project for the Retail, Wholesale, Department Store Union, But it s going to take some disruption to get them to do it.