JUST IN: Warehouse workers at an Amazon fulfillment center on Staten Island have voted to join the upstart Amazon Labor Union, making it the first Amazon facility in the U.S. to unionize.
Amazon's JFK8 Staten Island fulfillment center is seen in Staten Island on March 25, 2022 in New York City.
Shortly after being fired, Smalls formed the Amazon Labor Union, relying on GoFundMe to finance the operation. The ALU is not affiliated with any national union, leading many to wonder early on whether it could even gather enough employee signatures to petition for a vote. Indeed, a first attempt failed, but Smalls persevered, eventually meeting the 30% threshold necessary to hold a vote.
Former Amazon supervisor Christian Smalls speaks before attendees at an Amazon Labor Union event in New York city on March 11, 2022. Smalls formed the ALU after being fired in March 2020. The Staten Island warehouse was only the second Amazon facility to hold a union election. The first, a mail ballot held last year at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, was invalidated by the National Labor Relations Board after it found that Amazon had improperly interfered in the election by havingVotes in the do-over election were counted on Thursday, but the results were too close to call.
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