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Amazon Workers in North Carolina File for Union Election

Spencer Soper

23 December 2024 at 7:44 pm·1-min read

(Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc. employees at a North Carolina warehouse filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board requesting an election to determine if workers in the facility will be represented by a union.

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Carolina Amazonians for Solidarity and Empowerment said in a statement Monday that it believes an organizing effort collected signatures representing at least 30% of the workforce at the site, which would force an election. An Amazon spokesperson wouldn’t disclose the current number of employees at the facility, which opened in Garner, North Carolina, in 2020.

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The NLRB said the North Carolina warehouse has 4,300 employees, according to a document with the filing petition.

The employee group began circulating union authorization cards earlier this year, saying it aims to improve wages and working conditions at the facility. Amazon spokesperson Eileen Hards said the company is “skeptical” that the group garnered sufficient signatures to force an election because Amazon offers competitive pay and benefits. Workers at the facility earn as much as $19 hourly, according to online job postings.

The push for a union election is the latest development in the company’s ongoing tensions with labor. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters began picketing outside Amazon delivery stations in California, Illinois, New York and Georgia last week. The action has since spread to an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island where workers in 2022 voted to be represented by the upstart Amazon Labor Union. That union has since affiliated with the Teamsters.

The North Carolina group describes itself as “worker led” and hasn’t disclosed any affiliation with an existing union. The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union has tried unsuccessfully to organize an Amazon facility in Alabama.

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