Amazon workers in a town near Albany, New York are voting on whether to join the Amazon Labor Union, which nabbed its first win last April on Staten Island.
in Upstate New York could become the company's second warehouse to unionize after a facility in Staten Island.
On Wednesday, workers at the warehouse known as ALB1, located in the village of Castleton-on-Hudson, near Albany, began voting on whether to join the Amazon Labor Union which is fighting, in part, for a minimum wage of $30 an hour and longer breaks. The voting is slated to last through Monday with the vote count set for Oct. 18, according to the National Labor Relations Board . To even qualify for a union election, the NLRB requires signatures from 30% of eligible voters at a specific facility. has approximately 800 employees at the location. But in the filing, the Amazon Labor Union, the nascent union backing the workers, said there would be roughly 400 employees in the bargaining unit.
"We've always said that we want our employees to have their voices heard, and we hope and expect this process allows for that," Flaningan told FOX Business in a statement. Representatives for the Amazon Labor Union did not immediately respond to FOX Business' request for comment.
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