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News Articles: warehouse workers

Workers pack orders at an Amazon fulfillment center on January 20, 2015 in Tracy, California. OSHA cited Amazon after federal safety inspectors found ergonomic hazards at three Amazon warehouses.

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Behind your speedy Amazon delivery are serious hazards for workers, government finds

The Labor Department has cited Amazon for failing to keep workers safe at three warehouses. Federal safety inspectors found workers at high risk of lower back injuries and musculoskeletal disorders.

January 18, 2023
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  • Andrea Hsu
Workers at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island voted in March 2022 to join the Amazon Labor Union. Amazon is presenting its objections to the election before a National Labor Relations Board hearing being conducted over Zoom.

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Inside the marathon Zoom call where Amazon seeks to overturn historic union victory

With the existence of a grass roots union at stake, the National Labor Relations Board is considering Amazon's objections to the Amazon Labor Union's historic victory.

June 22, 2022
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Workers at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island voted in March 2022 to join the Amazon Labor Union. Amazon is presenting its objections to the election before a National Labor Relations Board hearing being conducted over Zoom.

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  • Business

Inside the marathon Zoom call where Amazon seeks to overturn historic union victory

With the existence of a grass roots union at stake, the National Labor Relations Board is considering Amazon's objections to the Amazon Labor Union's historic victory.

June 22, 2022
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Workers walk to cast their votes over whether or not to unionize, at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island on March 25, 2022. Another Amazon warehouse across the street began voting on a union on Monday.

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A 2nd Amazon warehouse on Staten Island begins voting on a union

Less than a month after the Amazon Labor Union unionized the first Amazon facility in the U.S., workers at a smaller warehouse across the street begin voting on whether to join the upstart union.

April 25, 2022
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Workers at Amazon's warehouse on Staten Island in New York will vote on whether to unionize, becoming the second U.S. warehouse to get such an election.

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Amazon labor push escalates as workers at New York warehouse win a union vote

Amazon will face two union elections at once. Federal officials have set a union vote for Amazon workers at a Staten Island warehouse, coinciding with the ongoing re-do election in Bessemer, Ala.

February 17, 2022
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh
A retail union representative holds a sign by the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., during the first union election in March 2021.

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Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama vote for second time in union effort

Last year, Alabama workers voted against forming the first unionized Amazon warehouse in the U.S. Then, federal labor officials said Amazon unfairly influenced that election. Now, a re-vote begins.

February 04, 2022
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh
Workers at Amazon's warehouse on Staten Island are expected to vote on whether to unionize in the coming months.

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Amazon faces another union vote, this time at a Staten Island warehouse

Federal labor officials found enough support among Amazon workers on Staten Island to pave the way for a union election. It could be the second union vote for Amazon this year.

January 27, 2022
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  • Alina Selyukh
During last year's high-profile union vote, an Amazon-branded tent cloaks a mailbox outside the company's warehouse in Bessemer, Ala.

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Why a mailbox continues to loom over Amazon union vote at Alabama warehouse

The mailbox was a key reason why labor officials ruled to re-do a union election at Amazon's Alabama warehouse. For the re-vote, the mailbox got moved. The union wants it gone.

January 26, 2022
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  • Alina Selyukh and
  • Stephan Bisaha
The Amazon warehouse at the center of a high-profile unionization drive is seen on March 29 in Bessemer, Ala.

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Amazon warehouse workers get to re-do their union vote in Alabama

A federal labor official has ordered a revote in the biggest Amazon union election in the U.S. The agency found the company's anti-union tactics tainted the original vote that rejected unionizing.

November 30, 2021
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh
Workers and supporters hold signs after filing a petition requesting an election to form a union outside the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regional office in the Brooklyn Borough of New York, U.S., on Monday, Oct. 25, 2021. Amazon.com Inc. workers hoping to unionize four company facilities in Staten Island formally filed a petition with federal labor officials to hold a union election.

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Amazon warehouse workers in New York file for a union vote

Amazon workers in New York plan to take an initial step toward forming a union. Organizers say they have collected some 2,000 signatures for a union vote from warehouse workers on Staten Island.

October 25, 2021
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  • Alina Selyukh
Amazon workers hold a walkout over conditions at a Staten Island warehouse in March 2020.

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Amazon warehouse workers on Staten Island push for union vote

Some 2,000 workers from four facilities have signed cards seeking an election to form a union, according to organizers.

October 22, 2021
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  • Alina Selyukh
Amazon workers move containers to delivery trucks at an Amazon warehouse facility in Goodyear, Ariz., in December 2019.

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A New Law In California Aims To Protect Workers At Retail Warehouses Like Amazon's

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 701 on Wednesday. It aims to address the impact of speed quotas on warehouse worker injuries and health.

September 23, 2021
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Working conditions at Amazon's warehouses, which are mushrooming across the U.S., are attracting increased scrutiny.

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Senators Want An Investigation Of How Amazon Treats Its Pregnant Workers

Lawmakers urged the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate in a letter signed by Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and 3 others.

September 11, 2021
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh
A man works at a conveyor belt at an Amazon warehouse in New York City in 2019.

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California Bill Passes, Giving Amazon Warehouse Workers Power To Fight Speed Quotas

California lawmakers have passed a first-of-its-kind legislation that targets Amazon and other large warehouses. The bill, opposed by retail and business groups, now heads to the governor's office.

September 09, 2021
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  • Alina Selyukh
Signs reading "vote" hang outside the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., in March as workers wrapped up their seven-week mail-in election on whether to unionize.

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Amazon Warehouse Workers In Alabama May Get To Vote Again On Union

A federal labor official found that Amazon's anti-union tactics may have tainted last spring's voting process sufficiently to scrap its results. Workers had rejected unionization more than 2-to-1.

August 03, 2021
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  • Alina Selyukh and
  • Stephan Bisaha
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