A spokeswoman for the National Labor Relations Board said that the petition to hold an election at an Amazon fulfillment center in California has been withdrawn. The petition was filed on October 12th and the National Labor Relations Board confirmed that there was enough interest to proceed with the election.
It is not known why the petition was withdrawn or if it has anything to do with the ALU's recent loss. According to Blado, the petition doesn't have to tell the NLRB why they're withdrawing. The union didn't reply immediately. An estimated 800 full- and part-time employees would have been able to vote on whether to join the ALU.
The union won an election last year to organize Amazon's JFK8 facility in Staten Island, where it is currently trying to negotiate a collective bargaining contract. It lost an election at the LDJ5 facility in May and one in Albany earlier this month. The president of ALU, Christian Smalls, said that the election was a sham.
The National Labor Relations Board has accused Amazon of violating labor laws during elections, with unions accusing the company of intimidating, threatening, and surveilled workers. Regulators want to ban the company's practice of holding mandatory anti-union meetings and have ordered it to re-hire a worker who was fired for participating in protests. The worker was a member of the Amazon labor union. The results of an election in Alabama that was interfered with by Amazon are still being debated.
This isn't the first time unions have stopped an election. The Communications Workers of America withdrew their request to hold a vote at an Apple store in Atlanta because of the company's actions. The union withdrew its petition to hold a vote at the Amazon facility.
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