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Amazon Brings Its Shady Anti-Union Tactics to Staten Island Unionization Effort
Signs at Amazon s Staten Island warehouse warn against talking to labor organizers.
Just over a month after Amazon successfully shut down its Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse workers’ attempt to unionize, reporters have already found evidence of the company using its shady union-busting tactics on a new target: Amazon warehouse workers trying to form a union in Staten Island, New York.
Three weeks into “JFK8” facility workers’ independent union drive,
More Perfect Union reports Amazon is ramping up its union-busting effort. The company borrowed some tactics from their last successful union bust, like putting up anti-union signs in the bathroom, this time warning against having to pay union dues.