Amazon faces another union election next week.
In an all-hands meeting with employees on Tuesday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy addressed the mounting efforts to unionize the company’s fulfillment centers. The discussion was sparked by an employee who asked about the company’s position on unions, per a recording of the meeting obtained byJassy argued that unionization would make employees of the company feel less empowered. “One of the things that’s unique about Amazon is that we have unusual empowerment for our employees,” he said.
Jassy prefaced the statement by making clear that “the decision to join a union is employees’ decision. It always has been, and always will be.” “[When] you’re part of the union it’s much slower and much more bureaucratic, much harder to do that” The all-hands came after weeks of news stories about ongoing union elections at its fulfillment centers in Bessemer, Alabama (where the results are
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