NLRB ORDERS NEW ELECTION IN AMAZON WAREHOUSE VOTE

Citing “flagrant disregard” of fair election rules by Amazon, the National Labor Relations Board has ordered a new election at the company’s Bessemer, Ala., warehouse. The NLRB found that Amazon improperly interfered with the first election earlier this year.

NLRB Atlanta region director Lisa Y. Henderson cited the company’s flagrant disregard” of agency procedures that guarantee free and fair elections and that they had “essentially hijacked the process.” The decision was a victory for the union, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union which is waging a continued campaign to unionize Amazon warehouse workers.

Portside reprint of article by Jay Greene in Washington Post, 11/29.