MADISON, Wis. — Friday it was announced that the Amazon warehouse workers voted against unionizing, Madison organizers rallied Sunday to show solidarity for the workers who voted yes.
Workers from a warehouse in Bessemer Alabama voted on weather to be the companies first group of unionized employees. The votes that were counted on Friday said that there would be no union would form.
Social Alternative organizer, Jacob Druker, said “Amazon did not win this election fair and square, they pulled out every trick in the book.”
There have been reports from workers that they had to attend mandatory meetings meant to convince them to vote against the union leading up to the Vote, and that Amazon hung up anti-union posters in the warehouse.
While speaking to the Madison rally, Our Wisconsin Revolution organizer, Ashley Hudson, said, “oh yeah, and they managed to get the Bessemer public police–as-in payed for by our tax dollars–to function as private security to intimidate the workers.”
Only about half of the warehouse workers voted in the union election. Druker said, “that doesn’t mean the workers love Amazon, what it means is that Amazon played dirty, and because of that they won.”
The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union the workers were voting to join said they will file a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board.
Amazon, believes that their employees voiced their clear desire not to unionize in their votes.
“The objective conditions that Covid has caused with more exploitation and worse inequality than ever are making people angry, making them frustrated, making them desperate, and they are ready to look to solutions that they might not have considered before like unionizing,” Druker said.
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