Amazon argues that historic union vote in New York was TAINTED by national labor board

Amazon is demanding an overturn of the historic union victory at one of its New York City warehouses, arguing that the organizers and the National Labor Relations Board tainted the results – while founder and chairman Jeff Bezos tweeted six days after the vote to celebrate being named LinkedIn’s top company. The e-commerce giant listed 25 objections in the filing obtained by The Associated Press, accusing organizers with the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) of intimidating workers to vote for the union, a claim an attorney representing the union has called ‘patently absurd.”Based on the evidence we’ve seen so far, as set out in our objections, we believe that the actions of the NLRB and the ALU improperly suppressed and influenced the vote, and we think the election should be conducted again so that a fair and broadly representative vote can be had,’ Kelly Nantel, an Amazon spokesperson, said in a statement on Friday. Amazon claimed the independent federal agency’s regional office, which oversaw the votes at the Staten Island warehouse, known as JFK8, ‘unfairly and inappropriately facilitated the ALU’s victory.’ The company claims that the Congress-backed National Labor Relations Board used an ‘artificial reduced number’ of employees to calculate the ALU’s vote, after…
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