NLRB Overturns Amazon Workers' Decision Not To Unionize, Orders New Election

The only solution, they say, is to have a new election where the true winner will emerge victorious.

The National Labor Relations Board has ordered a do-over of a high-profile unionization election at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama.

The Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union lost that election decisively in April-by a margin greater than two-to-one-but the NLRB is giving the union a second chance after a dispute that centers on the mailboxes used to collect workers' ballots.

Lisa Henderson, the director of the NLRB's Atlanta region who issued the board's ruling on Monday, said that Amazon's decision to place a post office collection box near the warehouse's parking lot gave "The appearance of irregular and improper" election procedures that violated the NLRB's rules.

Amazon executives had argued that the mailbox was provided to make it easier for workers to deposit their ballots, but the union claimed the mailbox somehow caused workers to believe the election was being unduly influenced by management.

Separately, Henderson also sided with the union's complain that Amazon had "Improperly polled employees" prior to the election by making "Vote NO" paraphernalia available to workers.

The results of April's election suggest that it was the RWDSU's own failures rather than intimidation from Amazon that swung the outcome.
 

https://reason.com/2021/11/30/nlrb-overturns-amazon-workers-decision-not-to-unionize-orders-new-election/