Workers at Amazon warehouse in North Carolina rejected a union proposal to become the latest group for the company’s employees in an opposition to union representatives.
About three-quarters of the Amazon fulfillment center in Ghana, located in a small town near Raleigh, voted against joining a grassroots labor organization called Carolina Amazonians Amazonians Amazonians, the National Labor Relations Commission announced Saturday.
Federal labor agencies said 2,447 workers voted for union representatives, while 829 voted for an independent coalition of former and current Amazon workers. The NLRB has said that 4,300 Amazon workers are eligible to vote in elections held Monday to Saturday.
Rev. Ryan Brown, a former Amazon worker who co-founded the organization, said Saturday: “We are ready for the loss.”
“We know that historically, trends are against our victory for a number of reasons,” Brown said. “One, we are in the South. Two, the benefits of ordinary workers in North Carolina to unions and unions and unions for unions,” he said. They don’t know what role they do.”
The result was weeks after workers at a Pennsylvania’s whole food market store voted for union, which led to the first successful entry of an Amazon-owned grocery chain. After the league won, Whole Foods asked NLRB to abandon the election results, believing that the voting process was contaminated.
In 2022, the Amazon Lawin Union, the Amazon Warehouse in the New York Borough of Staten Island, united the league with the team last year. However, Amazon opposes the election results and refuses to negotiate contracts.
Meanwhile, the company was able to successfully resist union victories in its second warehouse on Staten Island, as well as in Albany, New York and a second warehouse near Bessemer, Alabama.
In November, an NLRB administrative law judge ordered the third coalition election for Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemeer after determining that the company committed six violations in March 2022. This is an attempt to raise objections to the first election on behalf of Amazon workers in Bessemer, which led to union losses.
Workers affiliated with the Carolina Amazonians have been organizing in North Carolina warehouses since January 2022. Co-founder Brown said in an interview last month that he began organizing organizations to oppose COVID-19.
