Big hurdles could explode in the face of e-commerce giant Amazon

For years, e-commerce giant Amazon has managed to fend off attempts by its American employees to unionize, but the situation is now more difficult in a new democratic era in the United States.

Today, the tech company is gearing up for a union battle unparalleled in its history. Over the next two months, thousands of Amazon workers at an Alabama warehouse must vote by mail to find out if they join a union, a vote that could reshape the relationship between workers and the second employer. . He worked in the country, according to the “Wall Street Journal”.

The retail giant faces a familiar adversary, the Retail, Wholesale and Store Association, or RWDSU, which, along with local organizers, is helping lead the pro-union campaign.

The union has helped organize thousands of poultry workers in Alabama, implement “right to work” principles, and unions have become a frequent opponent of Amazon in recent years.

RWDSU fought the company’s plan to install a second headquarters in New York City at the end of 2018 and supported worker protests in some warehouses during the coronavirus pandemic.

So far, the current effort has been more successful than other attempts to organize Amazon workers, according to experts who have indicated that successful warehouse organizing efforts could spur similar actions in more than 800 Amazon installations in the United States.

Amazon has sought to postpone the scheduled February 8 election start date and resumed the National Labor Relations Board’s decision to allow postal voting, as voting will likely continue as scheduled, but the decision to forming a union could mean years of negotiating employment contracts for Amazon employees.