Amazon North Carolina workers reject union, handing retailer win in labor fight

[How Sway?]

Feb 15 (Reuters) - Amazon (AMZN.O), opens new tab workers in North Carolina voted against joining a union, a big win for the retail giant which has vigorously opposed organized labor at its facilities across the United States.
About three-quarters of voters were opposed, marking a setback for union officials who have long coveted Amazon because of how many industries it touches, including warehousing, trucking, manufacturing and even data processing. A simple majority of voters among the 4,300 workers at the warehouse in Garner, North Carolina, near Raleigh, was necessary to form the union.

The National Labor Relations Board, or NLRB, released the results of this week's vote on Saturday. Among voters, 2,447 were opposed and 829 were in favor of joining a union.
Amazon has argued that its workers are best served by having a direct relationship with the company rather than through organized labor, while union officials have said improvements in working conditions and wages are only possible through collective bargaining.

The company said in a statement it was "glad" that workers "chose to keep a direct relationship with Amazon." Union organizers said in a statement that the vote was the result of Amazon's "relentless and illegal effort to intimidate" workers.
It was the second such vote Amazon faced in as many months, after a majority of workers at a Philadelphia Whole Foods location opted to join a union, the first at the grocery chain. Amazon has asked the NLRB to reject that vote over allegations that union officials coerced and intimidated workers in an effort to win the election. Union officials have denied those allegations, saying they ran fair elections.

https://www.reuters.com/business/amazon-north-carolina-workers-reject-union-handing-retailer-win-labor-fight-2025-02-15/

good ole NC at it again

 

[Remote]

Continuing to vote against your interests is so hot right now.

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

And will be crying once skynet goes full force
Americans of all colors are straight idiots

 

[ItsPeople]

They know what happens when you unionized at Amazon.

Amazon starts closing Quebec warehouses as union president calls for boycott | Globalnews.ca

Amazon has not responded to requests for comment but has previously dismissed claims that the layoffs are linked to a recent unionization push in the province.

globalnews.ca

Trudeau has accused the e-commerce goliath of closing its warehouses in the province to punish employees at his facility for unionizing last May, and he is calling on all levels of government to boycott the company until it reopens its facilities or agrees to pay all its laid-off employees one year’s salary with benefits.

 

[Luke Cage]

I understand perfectly why a business owner would be against a union.

don't understand at all why a worker would be against a union though.

Just look at the statistics.

You literally gain more being in a union than not.

 

[Neuromancer]

Is this a southern thing? To be against unions?

 

[BaggerofTea]

i dont know how you can oppose consensus collective bargaining in 2025.


This country is full of serfs

 

[Jean toomer]

And will be crying once skynet goes full force
Americans of all colors are straight idiots

It’s called American exceptionalism.

 

[voiture]

If the business don't want you to be in a union it means you SHOULD be in a union.

 

[Robbie3000]

We have so many fukking idiots in this country and it’s especially worse in certain regions.

 

[get these nets]

The company said in a statement it was "glad" that workers "chose to keep a direct relationship with Amazon." Union organizers said in a statement that the vote was the result of Amazon's "relentless and illegal effort to intimidate" workers.
It was the second such vote Amazon faced in as many months, after a majority of workers at a Philadelphia Whole Foods location opted to join a union, the first at the grocery chain. Amazon has asked the NLRB to reject that vote over allegations that union officials coerced and intimidated workers in an effort to win the election. Union officials have denied those allegations, saying they ran fair elections

Trump crippled the NLRB within weeks into his term. So big business has a greenlight.

 

[Wargames]

Trump crippled the NLRB within weeks into his term. So big business has a greenlight.

They probably did a whole bunch of illegal shyt to pressure or lie to the workers in NC. That line about direct relationship between the employer and worker is straight anti-union propaganda

 

[krazykid18]

I understand perfectly why a business owner would be against a union.

don't understand at all why a worker would be against a union though.

Just look at the statistics.

You literally gain more being in a union than not.

You can't gain anything when it is zero..amazon will just close the warehouse

 

[Dillah810]

Is this a southern thing? To be against unions?

Yeah. The South heavily propagandizes against unions. The ideology that unions are bad is literally taught in grade schools in the south.

 

[num123]

We have to accept there are too many people out there that are fine with being wage slaves with no ambition or plans for the future. The people either voted for this or did not vote at all .