Another Amazon warehouse, this time in New Jersey, has qualified to hold a vote on whether to unionize — just weeks after the first Amazon facility in the United States successfully voted to organize.
, who became the face of the movement. The nascent union is now working on its second union vote, at a smaller warehouse on Staten Island. Workers there will begin voting whether to join the union next week.Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the New Jersey vote.
The company has opposed unionizing at its warehouses — saying in the past that it doesn’t believe forming a union is the “best answer” for employees. It hasLast year, workers in Bessemer, Ala., voted to reject joining the national Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union by a wide margin in the first such U.S. election. But federal regulators found that Amazon improperly interfered in the election, and they called for a new vote.
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