If the Amazon Labor Union wins a simple majority of those casting ballots, it could become Amazon’s first unionized warehouse in the country. The union is asking for hour-long lunch breaks, higher base pay, paid sick days and protection against layoffs.
Amazon union organizers rally for a union ahead of a vote that begins Friday.Some 8,000 workers will begin casting their ballots Friday morning to decide if they want to form a union at their Amazon warehouse on Staten Island — and the outcome of the vote could have a ripple effect throughout the tech behemoth’s empire.
Months of campaigning have led up to this point. Organizers have been talking to workers in break rooms, passing out flyers, knocking on doors and making phone calls by the thousands ahead of the vote, which concludes March 30.
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