Amazon wants to keep its workforce from unionizing. "Don't sign a card" is the message in one of its warehouses.
An employee at the facility sent photos of the new sign to the website. The fulfillment center's second employee, David, claimed to have been at the center since it opened in 2020. According to David, the carousel of anti-union posters went up today and cycles between several different slides, each discouraging workers from signing a union card. He said that it was on a constant loop when people punch in and punch out of their shifts. We will be up towards the front.
Amazon has put up signs to discourage unionization at other locations. In March, Vice reported that workers at JFK8 in Staten Island, New York were given posters with slogans like "Is union life for me?" and "Will the Amazon Labor Union replace mine?" The company has expressed its disdain for an organized workforce in a number of ways, but the sign at ALB1 seems to be the most aggressive. The company has a history of violating labor laws, such as interfering with a union election, and firing workers. The company was planning a campaign against a well-known person.
If the National Labor Relations Board comments on the legality of this sign, we will update our story.
The workers at ALB1 have been trying to form a union for some time. It's not clear if the organizing efforts will lead to joining Amazon Labor Union, the grassroots group that successfully voted to unionize a Staten Island facility in April. Management at this fulfillment center seems to see the group as its primary threat based on the new signs. ALU is referred to in nearly all of the signs. It's not clear what kind of personal privacy would be given up by joining ALU. If we hear back from the group, we'll update this story.
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