Amazon will redo Bessemer union election on February 4th

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Amazon broke labor laws in the election, according to the National Labor Relations Board.

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The second union election at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama will begin on February 4th, according to a notice posted Tuesday by the National Labor Relations Board. The results of the election that was carried out in 2021, which were declared invalid by the regulatory agency after reports that Amazon had broken labor laws during the union drive, will be carried out again.

Almost a year after workers voted on whether to unionize, the election will take place. The union lost the election but took issue with the results because of the mailbox issue. The USPS installed a mailbox at Amazon's request, and at one point a privacy tent was put up around it, which employees believed was monitored with video.

Regulators found that Amazon interfered in the first election.

The second election will be set aside after the NLRB found that the Employer interfered with the employees' exercise of a free and reasoned choice by creating the appearance of irregularity in the election. It accuses Amazon of improper polling employees during mandatory meetings.

The redo will be carried out through the mail. The Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union said in a statement that it was concerned that the decision didn't adequately prevent Amazon from continuing its objectionable behavior in a new election. The RWDSU proposed a number of remedies that could have made the process more fair to workers, but they weren't taken up in the Notice of Election issued today.

Amazon didn't reply immediately to the request for comment.

The ballots will have to reach the offices by March 25th to be counted, but the NLRB says that it will start counting on March 28th. The company has agreed to stop barring employees from being at their workplace more than 15 minutes before or after their shifts if they are carrying out union activity and has promised to prominently post statements of workers' rights.