Amazon hit with labor complaint over failing to bargain with Staten Island union

The National Labor Relations Board said Tuesday it recovered merit to charges that Amazon violated labour instrumentality by refusing to bargain with a fledgling national representing employees astatine 1 of its New York warehouses.

In an bid issued by a determination manager successful the NLRB's Brooklyn office, the bureau said it's seeking remedies, including ordering Amazon to "bargain successful bully faith" with the Amazon Labor Union, and to marque full the bargaining-unit employees for the mislaid accidental to negociate astatine the clip and mode they're entitled to nether nationalist labour law.

Workers astatine 1 of the retail giant's Staten Island warehouses, known arsenic JFK8, voted past April to join the Amazon Labor Union, a grassroots enactment started by existent and erstwhile employees. Since that win, the radical has been warring to scope a declaration with Amazon, and the conflict has spilled implicit into the courts, wherever the institution continues to situation the results, arsenic good arsenic the NLRB and the union's behaviour during the election. The bureau upheld the results of the predetermination successful January.

The ALU has urged Amazon to statesman declaration talks aggregate times since past April, but the institution has routinely refused, successful bid to "test the certification of the national arsenic the exclusive collective-bargaining representative" of employees, the bureau said successful its order.

Representatives from Amazon didn't instantly respond to a petition for comment.

The NLRB ailment comes arsenic the ALU has faced setbacks since its landmark triumph connected Staten Island. ALU lost 2 elections at different Amazon warehouses past year, and rifts person formed betwixt immoderate leaders and members of the union. On Monday, a radical of erstwhile ALU members sued the union, accusing it of violating the ALU's constitution and asking a Brooklyn tribunal to compel it to clasp an predetermination for national officers. Lawyers for the ALU told the group, called the ALU Democratic Reform Caucus, that the suit was frivolous and false, according to The New York Times.